Ancient Religion and Modern Thought

Chapman and Hall, 1885 - 367 pages

THE MESSAGE OF MODERN THOUGHT	1

Sketch of the Buddhas doctrine Ignorance the fundamental error	25

The Buddhist Reformation	36

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Condition of religious thought in England in Cardinal Newmans	51

The nucleus of the Tractarian party	57

The Tracts for the Times	65

John Henry Newmans Secession	78

Will this Natural Religion satisfy human needs?	215

But does the need for a substitute for Christianity exist?	222

The argument against Christianity from the pain in the Universe	233

That case will now be considered as it is urged against Catholicity	239

Belief in God is less difficult than disbelief	246

Can the God of Nature and of the Moral Law be identified with	255

The objection to it amounts to thisthat it does not correspond with	261

Historical Difficulties	267

CHAPTER III	103

Vast extent of the nonChristian systems	109

Confucius and his work	115

The Religion of the Magi	121

Zoroaster and his teaching	127

The Upanishads	134

Buddhism	146

His Sermon on Pain and the Origin of Pain	158

Muslim Mysticism	165

FariduDDin Attâr	172

The MantiqutTayr	178

The character and influence of the Sûfîs	185

All Religions are to be approached with reverence because of	191

The immediate outlook is dark and discouraging	197

His view that religion in some form is essential to the world	205

Such a religion would be culture in the individual and civilization	209

Biblical Difficulties	273

A Short and Easy Method with Catholicity	281

Singular Defenders of the Faith	288

The Will and the Reason	294

Dieu se retrouve à la fin de tout	306

First looking at the question from the point of view of physical	312

Death does not destroy an atom of the physical organism	313

The existence of psychical states in which the laws of the physical	320

We have a guarantee from nature that the something permanent	321

If the fact of spontaneous generation should be established as it per	337

matter as distinct from	342

Domine	348

The Gita and the Vedanta	350

The Idea of the Tractarian Movement	352

323	355

The Progress of the Tractarian Movement	366

Pealkiri	Ancient Religion and Modern Thought
Autor	William Samuel Lilly
Edition	2
Publisher	Chapman and Hall, 1885
Original from	Harvard University
Digitized	18 okt. 2008
Length	367 pages

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