Part II.

THE FALSE OR THEOLOGICAL ESSENCE OF RELIGION.

XIX. The Essential Standpoint of Religion 185 XX. The Contradiction in the Existence of God 197 XXI. The Contradiction in the Revelation of God 204 XXII. The Contradiction in the Nature of God in General 213 XXIII. The Contradiction in the Speculative Doctrine of God 226 XXIV. The Contradiction in the Trinity 232 XXV. The Contradiction in the Sacraments 236 XXVI. The Contradiction of Faith and Love 247 XXVII. Concluding Application 270

APPENDIX.

SECTION

1. The Religious Emotions Purely Human 281 2. God is Feeling Released from Limits 283 3. God is the Highest Feeling of Self 284 4. Distinction between the Pantheistic and Personal God 285 5. Nature without Interest for Christians 287 6. In God Man is his Own Object 289 7. Christianity the Religion of Suffering 292 8. Mystery of the Trinity 293 9. Creation out of Nothing 297 10. Egoism of the Israelitish Religion 298 11. The Idea of Providence 299 12. Contradiction of Faith and Reason 304 13. The Resurrection of Christ 306 14. The Christian a Supermundane Being 307 15. The Celibate and Monachism 308 16. The Christian Heaven 315 17. What Faith Denies on Earth it Affirms in Heaven 316 18. Contradictions in the Sacraments 317 19. Contradiction of Faith and Love 320 20. Results of the Principle of Faith 326 21. Contradiction of the God-Man 332 22. Anthropology the Mystery of Theology 336

THE ESSENCE OF CHRISTIANITY.