ADMINISTRATION, Divine, harmony of, 127.
Admiration has a personal basis,
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
HEGELIANISM, its essence, 353. History sometimes confounded with biography, 135.
Hospitals, a Christian institution,
271. Humanists at the Reformation, 347; their servility, 354.
IDEAS gain credence from repetition,
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.
JUSTIFICATION by Faith only, Lu- ther's view of, 327; its relation to the Reformation, 328.
KANT, on design in Nature, 23. Kepler, his view of planetary spirits, 136.
Knowledge being positive, finite in character, 249.
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.
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.
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.
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.
ORIGEN, his view of planetary spirits,
136. Orphanages, when first founded, 271.
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.
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,
Revelation, how far a natural pro- ccss, 47.
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