It is hoped that this book may serve as an outline for a largerwork, in which the Judgments here expressed may be supported indetail. Especially, the author desires to treat the literature ofthe social question and of the modernist movement with a fulnesswhich has not been possible within the limits of this sketch. Thephilosophy of religion and the history of religions should haveplace, as also that estimate of the essence of Christianity whichis suggested by the contact of Christianity with the livingreligions of the Orient.
PASQUE ISLAND, MASS.,
July 28, 1911.
A. INTRODUCTION.
B. THE BACKGROUND.
DEISM.
RATIONALISM.
PIETISM.
ÆSTHETIC IDEALISM.
IDEALISTIC PHILOSOPHY.
KANT.
FICHTE.
SCHELLING.
HEGEL.
THEOLOGICAL RECONSTRUCTION.
SCHLEIERMACHER.
RITSCHL AND THE RITSCHLIANS.
THE CRITICAL AND HISTORICALMOVEMENT.
STRAUSS.
BAUR.
THE CANON.
THE LIFE OF JESUS.
THE OLD TESTAMENT.
THE HISTORY OF DOCTRINE.
HARNACK.
THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE SCIENCES.
POSITIVISM.
NATURALISM AND AGNOSTICISM.
EVOLUTION.
MIRACLES.
THE SOCIAL SCIENCES.
THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES; ACTION ANDREACTION.
THE POETS.
COLERIDGE.
THE ORIEL SCHOOL.
ERSINE AND CAMPBELL.
MAURICE.
CHANNING.
BUSHNELL.
THE CATHOLIC REVIVAL.
THE OXFORD MOVEMENT.
NEWMAN.
MODERNISM.
ROBERTSON....