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Ten Great Religions: An Essay in Comparative Theology

§ 1. Object of the present Work § 2. Comparative Theology; its Nature, Value, and present Position § 3. Ethnic Religions. Injustice often done to them by Christian Apologists § 4. How Ethnic Religions were regarded by Christ and his Apostles § 5. Comparative Theology will furn...

Chapters

24. Chapter 24

§ 1. General Results of this Survey. § 2. Christianity a Pleroma, or Fulness of Life. § 3. Christianity, as a Pleroma, compared with Brahmanism, Confucianism, and Buddhism. § 4....

15. Chapter 15

§ 1. Our Knowledge of Brahmanism. Sir William Jones. § 2. Difficulty of this Study. The Complexity of the System. The Hindoos have no History. Their Ultra-Spiritualism. § 3. Hel...

19. Chapter 19

§ 1. The Land and the Race. § 2. Idea and General Character of Greek Religion. § 3. The Gods of Greece before Homer. § 4. The Gods of the Poets. § 5. The Gods of the Artists. §...

22. Chapter 22

§ 1. Palestine, and the Semitic Races. § 2. Abraham; or, Judaism as the family Worship of a Supreme Being. § 3. Moses; or, Judaism as the national Worship of a just and holy Kin...

18. Chapter 18

§ 1. Antiquity and Extent of Egyptian Civilization. § 2. Religious Character of the Egyptians. Their Ritual. § 3. Theology of Egypt. Sources of our Knowledge concerning it. § 4....

14. Chapter 14

§ 1. Peculiarities of Chinese Civilization. § 2. Chinese Government based on Education. Civil-Service Examinations. § 3. Life and Character of Confucius. § 4. Philosophy and sub...

21. Chapter 21

§ 1. The Land and the Race. § 2. Idea of the Scandinavian Religion. § 3. The Eddas and their Contents. § 4. The Gods of Scandinavia. § 5. Resemblance of the Scandinavian Mytholo...

23. Chapter 23

§ 1. Recent Works on the Life of Mohammed. § 2. The Arabs and Arabia. § 3. Early Life of Mohammed, to the Hegira. § 4. Change in the Character of Mohammed after the Hegira. § 5....

17. Chapter 17

§ 1. Ruins of the Palace of Xerxes at Persepolis. § 2. Greek Accounts of Zoroaster. Plutarch's Description of his Religion. § 3. Anquetil du Perron and his Discovery of the Zend...

20. Chapter 20

§ 1. Origin and essential Character of the Religion of Rome. § 2. The Gods of Rome. § 3. Worship and Ritual. § 4. The Decay of the Roman Religion. § 5. Relation of the Roman Rel...

13. Chapter 13

§ 1. Object of the present Work. § 2. Comparative Theology; its Nature, Value, and present Position. § 3. Ethnic Religions. Injustice often done to them by Christian Apologists....

16. Chapter 16

§ 1. Buddhism, in its Forms, resembles Romanism; in its Spirit, Protestantism. § 2. Extent of Buddhism. Its Scriptures. § 3. Sakyamuni, the Founder of Buddhism. § 4. Leading Doc...

1. Chapter 1

§ 1. Object of the present Work § 2. Comparative Theology; its Nature, Value, and present Position § 3. Ethnic Religions. Injustice often done to them by Christian Apologists §...

5. Chapter 5

§ 1. Ruins of the Palace of Xerxes at Persepolis § 2. Greek Accounts of Zoroaster. Plutarch's Description of his Religion § 3. Anquetil du Perron and his Discovery of the Zend A...

3. Chapter 3

§ 1. Our Knowledge of Brahmanism. Sir William Jones § 2. Difficulty of this Study. The Complexity of the System. The Hindoos have no History. Their Ultra-Spiritualism § 3. Helps...

12. Chapter 12

§ 1. General Results of this Survey § 2. Christianity a Pleroma, or Fulness of Life § 3. Christianity, as a Pleroma, compared with Brahmanism, Confucianism, and Buddhism § 4. Ch...

10. Chapter 10

§ 1. Palestine, and the Semitic Races § 2. Abraham; or, Judaism as the Family Worship of a Supreme Being § 3. Moses; or, Judaism as the national Worship of a just and holy King...

11. Chapter 11

§ 1. Recent Works on the Life of Mohammed § 2. The Arabs and Arabia § 3. Early Life of Mohammed, to the Hegira § 4. Change in the Character of Mohammed after the Hegira § 5. Rel...

6. Chapter 6

§ 1. Antiquity and Extent of Egyptian Civilization § 2. Religious Character of the Egyptians. Their Ritual § 3. Theology of Egypt. Sources of our Knowledge concerning it § 4. Ce...

4. Chapter 4

§ 1. Buddhism, in its Forms, resembles Romanism; in its Spirit, Protestantism § 2. Extent of Buddhism. Its Scriptures § 3. Sakya-muni, the Founder of Buddhism § 4. Leading Doctr...

2. Chapter 2

§ 1. Peculiarities of Chinese Civilization § 2. Chinese Government based on Education. Civil-Service Examinations § 3. Life and Character of Confucius § 4. Philosophy and subseq...

9. Chapter 9

§ 1. The Land and the Race § 2. Idea of the Scandinavian Religion § 3. The Eddas and their Contents § 4. The Gods of Scandinavia § 5. Resemblance of the Scandinavian Mythology t...

7. Chapter 7

§ 1. The Land and the Race § 2. Idea and general Character of Greek Religion § 3. The Gods of Greece before Homer § 4. The Gods of the Poets § 5. The Gods of the Artists § 6. Th...

8. Chapter 8

§ 1. Origin and essential Character of the Religion of Rome § 2. The Gods of Rome § 3. Worship and Ritual § 4. The Decay of the Roman Religion § 5. Relation of the Roman Religio...