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INDEX

ADMINISTRATION, Divine, harmony
of, 127.

Admiration has a personal basis,

232.

Altruism not incompatible with
Christianity, 82, 377.
Anabaptists, their fanaticism not
due to the principles of the Re-
formation, 329.

Analogy of Nature, a theological
ground of argument, 212.
Antiquity no actual test of truth,
28.

Arabians, their services to physical
science, 350.

Aristotle, his medieval reputation,

247.

Art, its early relation to Christi-

anity, 280; its present position,
348.

Asceticism not essential to the theo-

logical spirit, 299.
Asylum, privilege of, 289.
Augsburg, Confession of, its con-
cluding declaration, 332.
Augustine, S., his view of miracles
as evidential, 139.

B.

BACON, Lord, on religious contro-
versy, 11; his view of missions,
356.

Barbarians readily admitted by the
Church, 281; mode of conversion,
286; its true causes, 288.
Barbaric Codes, show the influence
of Christianity, 284.

Becket habitually performed harvest
work, 300.

Belief, Christian, standard of, in
Scripture and Creeds, 31.
Biography, Religious, importance of,
228.

Bishops, popular election of, 280;
by royal mandate, 285; their
beneficial influence, 283, 288.
Bossuet, his argument against Pro-
testantism lies equally against
Christianity, 11.

Brahmanism, stationary, 26, 27, 29;

its doctrine of Absorption, 30.
Buckle, Henry T., his obligations to
Condorcet, 71; his views on civi-
lization, 146; on theology, 208;
confounds asceticism with self-
restraint, 299.
Buddhism, 26, 27;

once a mis-
sionary religion, 29, 363; extin-
guished caste, 30; favours Mon-
asticism, 297, 298.

Butler, Archer, on doctrinal develop-
ment, 45.

Butler, Bishop, 14, 20, 188, 212,
219.

C.

CALVIN, his doctrine of personal
assurance, 331.

Casuistry, its moral value, 166.
Catholicism, Medieval, its declen-
sion, 326.

Causes distinguished from occasions
of events, 134.

Chance equivalent to ignorance of
design, 77.

Chivalry, its relation to Medieval
Christianity, 311; its origin, ib.
Christ, Jesus, perennial influence of
His example, 35, 334.
Christianity, most vigorous in the
most civilized regions, 3; a factor
in civilization; 8, 152, 308; a
fact of long standing, 9; its dura-
bility ascertainable, 23; its anti-
quity, 28; an historical and docu-
mentary religion, 34, 64, 212;
the religion of progress, 51, 220;
its perpetuity a doctrinal tenet,
52, 56, 57, 264, 379; its assumed
failure, 58; as being a phase of
religion, 60; not a necessary
result only of antecedents, 144,
180; its progress, how far super-
natural, 145, 265; natural, 162;
limited, 169, 171; in advance of,
yet co-existent with, civilization,
172, 242; importance of its ideal
standard, 173; did not originate
in a moral protest, 169; not
eclectic, 177; is not a new code of
morals, 257; has not declined in
moral effect, 175; its part in ad-
vancing morals, 170, 176; its
slow progress not due to feeble-
ness, 188, 373; has survived
changes of opinion, 203; theories
of its origin, 261, 275; true
causes of its success, 262, 266,
268, 273; its moral power, 269,
272, 276; its services wrongly
attributed to positive institutions,
274; founded on a sense of sin,
276; its early influence on litera-
ture, 281; intellectual services in
Middle Ages, 193; its politi-
cal affinities, 359; whether demo-
cratic, 360; internal evidence of
its permanence, 375, 376; its
benevolence, 378.

Christians, moral excellence of the
first, 263.

Church, The, temporal supremacy
of, 185.

Circumstances, their coincidence ad-
mits of no law, 129.
Civilization, multiform, not a mere
intellectual advance, 146, 147;

answers to the whole nature of
man, 149; difference of Ancient
and Modern, 148.

Classicism, its effects on Christianity,
346, 348.

Communism, early view of, in the
Church, 187.

Confucius, his view of Providence,
125; of religion, 178, 257.
Consciousness, testimony of, analo-
gous to perception, 106.
Constantine established Christianity,
277; its consequences, 278.
Controversy a sign of religious acti-
vity, 11.

Conversion, power of, an element
in religious vitality, 26, 253,
362; essential to Christianity,
363.

Creeds, how connected with Scrip-
ture, 37, 38; independent form
of, 358.

Cromwell, Oliver, cause of his death,
131.

Crusades, The, criticisms of, 304;

really defensive, ib.; their services
to civilization, 305; their spiritual
import, 306; exhibit the heroic
type of Christianity, 307; later
Crusades, 315.

Cycles, theory of, in history, 131.

D.

DEDUCTION, its character as an in-
strument of proof, 215, 216.
Design, Argument from, not identical
with order, 22.
Development, Theory of, its influ-
ence on the perpetuity of Christian
doctrine, 42; dubiously admitted,
ib.; rests on authority, 43; really
an historical process, 44; Rational-
istic theory of, 46.

Discovery in Natural Science a
species of Revelation, 217.
Distance of time necessary to clear
judgment, 9.

Dominicans, their humane efforts,
366.

Durability, test of, in religions, 26.
Duration a relative idea, 23.

E.

EASTERN CHURCH, its failings, 170;
its subordination to the Greek
Emperors, 285; its Monachism,
298; its future, 372.

Effectual Call, sense of, in theology,
101.

Epicureanism, modern, traceable in
the view of Laws of Nature,
115.

Erasmus, his complaints, 346.
Error, slow extension of, 15.
Establishments, Church, usefulness
of, 357, 358.

Evangelical Preparation, truth and
importance of, 144.
Evil, existence of, explained by
partial knowledge, 20; nature
of moral and physical, 245; mode
of its extinction, 246.

F.

FAITH the basis of all scientific
acquirement, 240.

Fatalism contradicted by conscious-
ness, 102.

Feudalism, its relation to Medieval
Christianity, 309; its origin, 310.
Final Causes, fallacy of assuming,
19, 21.

Free Will, in what respects a theo-

logical tenet, 79; compatible with
physical uniformity, 80.

French Revolution, its intolerance,
344.

Froude, J. A., his view of Calvinism,
80; of General Laws, 136.

G.

GENERAL LAWS, personification of,
by recent writers, 136
Gibbon, his view of the success of
Christianity, 261; inadequate, 262.
Gladiatorial shows, extinguished by
Christianity, 271.

Greek nature controversial, 169.
Gregory the Great, synchronizes

with the final Christianization of
Europe, 284; his view of Purga-
tory, 319.

H.

HEGELIANISM, its essence, 353.
History sometimes confounded with
biography, 135.

Hospitals, a Christian institution,

271.
Humanists at the Reformation, 347;
their servility, 354.

I.

IDEAS gain credence from repetition,

61.

Induction not excluded by theo-
logy, 208; unknown to antiquity,
351.
Infanticide, a Pagan custom, 271.
Inquisition, The, how a means to
toleration of opinion, 139.
Instincts, existence and testimony
of, 82, 85; imply design, 84.
Investiture, Right of, 315.

J.

JUSTIFICATION by Faith only, Lu-
ther's view of, 327; its relation
to the Reformation, 328.

K.

KANT, on design in Nature, 23.
Kepler, his view of planetary spirits,
136.

Knowledge being positive, finite in
character, 249.

L.

LAS CASAS, his devoted life, 366.
Laws of Nature, wrongly identified

with a theory of Existence, 103;
meaning of General Laws, 115;
views as to their nature, 118; not
yet proved to be universal, 120;
by some held to be the term of
knowledge, 122.

Leibnitz, his theory of Parallelism,
93.

Love to God, an essentially Christian
precept, 165.

Luther, his vehemence, 328; efforts
for education, 347; view of the
permanence of Christianity, 379.
Lyranus Nicolaus, his Postillæ per-
petuæ, 329.

M.

MAHOMETANISM, 26, 27; its present
progress, 363, 372, 375.
Man, how superior to the animals,
109.

Mansel, Dean, his view of Divine
interposition, 133.

Marathon, religious importance of
this victory, 135.

Marriage, Christian view of, 271.
Martyrs in Science as in Religion,
197.

Materialism, its connection with
Positivism, 68; incompatible
with ignorance of physical causes,
91; its gloomy character, 222;
its present aspect, 244..
Matter, not eternal, 90; warrants in-

ference of the existence of God, 95.
Medieval Christianity, its corrup-

tions, 313, 355; inevitable, 314;
its military character, 315; cor-
ruptions of doctrine, 317; false
supports, 320; extravagance, 349;
suppression of criticism, 351; its
liberality, 360.

Melancthon, 323, 327, 347.
Method of Residues applicable to
History, 128.

Middle Ages, their religious charac-
ter, 173.

Miracles, classification of, 138.
Missions, whether incompatible with

Private Judgment, 361; prospects
of, 362, 370; early recognition of,
363; continuous, 364; their pro-
gress since the Reformation, 365,
366, 368.

Monasticism, Christian, its origin,
297; a remedy to excessive indus-
trialism, 299; involved labour,
300; merits of, 301; its defects,
302; self-regenerative power, 303.
Monotheism, its relation to Christi-
anity, 85.

t

Morality truly progressive, 163, 164;
advanced by Christianity, 165;
Christian morality the corollary of
its doctrines, 178; distinguished
from Religion, 258.

Mysteries, essential to Religion as re-
vealed, 141; economy of Christi-
anity in respect of, 141.
Mysticism, the correlative of Ration-
alism, 142; its relation to Mate-
rialism, 142.

N.

NATURAL SCIENCE, its prepossessions
as to Theology, 63; these histori-
cally justified, 66; present Mate-
rialistic tendencies of, 67, 76;
easily passes into dogmatism, 69.
Nature, uniformity of, tends to a First

Cause, 88; exhibits also variety
and irregularity, 130.
Neo-Platonism, its failure, 237.
Nescience, Philosophy of, often tends,
though not necessarily, to Mate-
rialism, 97, 117.

Newton, Sir Isaac, on the Nature of
God, 137.

Numbers no test of truth in Reli-
gion, 27.

0.

ORIGEN, his view of planetary spirits,

136.
Orphanages, when first founded,
271.

P.

PAGANISM, inefficient as a religion,
27; its reaction upon Christianity,
171.
Pantheism, essence of, 96; its anti-
dote, ib.
Papacy, spiritual function of, as a
tribunal of appeal, 291; decline
of, 316; its moral dignity, 316.
Pascal, his view of Prophecy, 139.
Patriotism recognized by Jesus

Christ, 81; a Christian virtue,
360.

Patteson, Bishop, his death, 370.
Penitentials, their influence as part
of Christian Law, 291.

Permanence, a test of reality, 13.

Perpetuity, a test of religious truth, 6.
Persecution for belief, its origin,
184, 356.

Physical Studies not irreligious
where not exclusive, 116; ancient
cultivation of, 350; indebted to
Protestantism, 356.

Platonism, its share in the Reforma-
tion, 323.

Pliny, his view of Prayer, 267.
Positive, history of the term, 67.
Positivism assumes all religious be-
lief to be imaginary, 16; a belief
in Laws, 59; negative in its ten-
dencies, 66; defective as an ex-
planation of phenomena, 97; its
relation to Free-Will, 108; its
failure as a religion, 237; its his-
torical criticism of Christianity,
320; confounds Christianity with
Catholicism, 342; its view of the
Reformation, 340.

Prayer, its relation to human re-
sponsibility, 74.
Prescription, limits of argument
from, 2.

Priscillian, his execution, 184.
Progress not limited to advance in
knowledge, 168; standard of, 373.
Property Tax, when first imposed in
England, 306.

Prophecy, historical character of, as
evidence, 139; fulfilled in the
progress of Christianity, 140.
Protestant, origin of name, 334.
Protestantism, its defect, 200; its
true function, 200; asserted to
have made no converts, 201; its
duty of toleration, 202; a gua-
rantee of permanence, 354.
Providence, theory of, essential to
Christianity, 113; general and
special, 123; sphere of, 125; mis-
interpretations of, 132.

R.

RATIONALISM views Religion as a
phase of morality, 256; this error
examined, 257; not a consequence
of the Reformation, 352; defined,
353.

Reformation restored the individual
influence of Christianity, 11; and
of the Bible, 41; not a mere moral
protest, 168,326, 327; its theology
inductive, 210; in itself a test
of the truth of Christianity, 321;
spontaneous, 322; not a result
of improved knowledge, 323; its
defects, 323; its practical changes
rested on renewed doctrines, 324;
date of its commencement, 325;
not indefinite, 331; or negative,
332; restored the balance of doc-
trines, 333; its permanent effects,
334; how a protest, 334; Roman
and Positivist views of, 340; Ra-
tionalistic view of, 341; still in
progress, 343; introduced new
elements of progress, 345.
Reformed Churches, their missionary

efforts, 369; and prospects, 372.
Religion, an element in civilization,
149; its changes not due to in-
tellectual progress, 150; its true
function, 156; not a mode of pro-
claiming morality, 161; influences
the advance of morals, 168; its
tacit force, 174; deals with spi-
ritual truth, 195; not reaction-
ary as to secular knowledge, 196;
how related to Natural Science,
225; independent of advances in
knowledge, 236; the Science of
the Soul, 223; a necessity of
human nature, 241; its vital
forces, 253; necessary elements,
255; a vehicle of Revelation, 256;
assumes Mysteries, 256; test of
its success, 258; how far a moral
one, 259; its periodicity of re-
vival, 344; foremost in political
reforms, 352.

Religion of Nature, its ambiguities,
161.

Religions perishable, 2; historical
sequence of, 144.

Religious Disabilities, removal of,
357.

Religious Wars, true character of,

183.

Revelation, how far a natural pro-
ccss, 47.

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