CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

INTRODUCTION.

§1. Object and Character of this Book...

2. Progress requires that we should look back as well as forward.

3. Orthodoxy as Right Belief..

4. Orthodoxy as the Doctrine of the Majority. Objections.

5. Orthodoxy as the Oldest Doctrine. Objections.

6. Orthodoxy as the Doctrine held by all...

7. Orthodoxy, as a Formula, not to be found..

8. Orthodoxy as Convictions underlying Opinions.

9. Substantial Truth and Formal Error in all great Doctrinal Systems.

10. Importance of this Distinction. . .

11. The Orthodox and Liberal Parties in New England.

CHAPTER II.

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THE PRINCIPLE AND IDEA OF ORTHODOXY STATED AND

EXAMINED.

$1. The Principle of Orthodoxy defined.

2. Logical Genesis of the Principle of Orthodoxy.

3. Orthodoxy assumed to be the Belief of the Majority.

4. Heterodoxy thus becomes sinful..

5. The Doctrine of Essentials and Non-essentials leads to Rome.

CHAPTER III.

THE ORTHODOX IDEA OF NATURAL AND REVEALED RELIGION;
OR, NATURALISM AND SUPERNATURALISM.

§ 1. Meaning of Natural and Supernatural.

2. The Creation Supernatural..

3. The Question stated.

4. Argument of the Supernaturalist from successive Geologic Creations.

5. Supernatural Argument from Human Freedom.

6. Supernatural Events not necessarily Violations of Law.

7. Life and History contain Supernatural Events..

8. The Error of Orthodox Supernaturalism.

9. No Conflict between Naturalism and Supernaturalism.

10.

Further Errors of Orthodox Supernaturalism - Gulf between Chris-

tianity and all other Religions......

11. Christianity considered unnatural as well as supernatural by being

made hostile to the Nature of Man.

CHAPTER IV.

TRUTHS AND ERRORS AS REGARDS MIRACLES.

§ 1. The Subject stated. Four Questions concerning Miracles..

2. The Definition of a Miracle.

3. The different Explanations of the Miracles of the Bible..

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Criticism on these Different Views of Miracles.

5. Miracles no Proof of Christianity. . .

6. But Orthodoxy is right in maintaining their Reality as Historic Facts.

7. Analogy with other Similar Events recorded in History..

8. Miracle of the Resurrection. Sceptical Objections..

9. Final Result of this Examination.

CHAPTER V.

ORTHODOX IDEA OF THE INSPIRATION AND AUTHORITY

OF THE BIBLE.

§1. Subject of this Chapter. Three Views concerning the Bible....

2. The Difficulty. Antiquity of the World, and Age of Mankind.

3. Basis of the Orthodox Theory of Inspiration.

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4. Inspiration in general, or Natural Inspiration.

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5. Christian or Supernatural Inspiration.

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6. Inspiration of the Scriptures, especially of the New Testament

ORTHODOX IDEA OF SIN, AS DEPRAVITY AND AS GUILT.

3. Orthodox and Liberal View of Man, as morally diseased or other-

wise.....

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4. Sin as Disease.

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5. Doctrine of the Fall in Adam, and Natural Depravity

- their Truth

and Error.

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6. Examination of Romans, 5: 12-21..

7. Orthodox View of Total Depravity and Inability.

8. Proof Texts.

9. Truth in the Doctrine of Total Depravity.

10. Ability and Inability..

11. Orthodox Doctrine of Inability.

12. Some further Features of Orthodox Theology concerning human

Sinfulness.

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§1. Orthodoxy recognizes only two Conditions in which Man can be

5. Is it the Work of God, or of the Man himself? Orthodox Difficulty. 178

6. Solved by the Distinction between Conversion and Regeneration.

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7. Men may be divided, religiously, into three Classes, not two.

8. Difference between Conversion and Regeneration.

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9. Unsatisfactory Attitude of the Orthodox Church.

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10. The Essential Thing for Man is to repent and be converted; that is,

to make it his Purpose to obey God in all Things.

11. Regeneration is God's Work in the Soul. Examination of the Clas-

sical Passage, or Conversation of Jesus with Nicodemus.

9. Orthodox Errors, at the present Time, in Regard to Justification by

Faith.

10. Errors of Liberal Christians..

CHAPTER X.

ORTHODOX IDEA OF THE ATONEMENT.

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5. Theological Theories based on the Figurative Language of the New

Testament.

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6. The three principal Views of the Atonement— - warlike, legal, and

governmental.

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7. Impression made by Christ's Death on the Minds of his Disciples.

First Theory on the Subject in the Epistle to the Hebrews.

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8. Value of Suffering as a Means of Education..

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9. The Human Conscience suggests the Need of some Satisfaction in

order to our Forgiveness.

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10. How the Death of Jesus brings Men to God..

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11. This Law of Vicarious Suffering universal..

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12. This Law illustrated from History - in the Death of Socrates, Joan

of Arc, Savonarola, and Abraham Lincoln..

3. Relation of the Divine Decree to Human Freedom..

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4. History of the Doctrine of Election and Predestination..

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5. Election is to Work and Opportunity here, not to Heaven hereafter.

How Jacob was elected, and how the Jews were a Chosen Peo-

ple.....

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