Ascent of Faith
Subtitle: or, The Grounds of Certainty in Science and Religion
Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton
Published: 1893
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS.; title: LECTURE I.; title: THE SCOPE OF THE LECTURES.; title: 1. Introduction i; title: 2. A Needed Distinction 3; title: 3. Step by Step 4; title: 4. The Subject of the Lectures 5; title: 5. Faith in Search 6; title: 6. Mistakes as to the Catholic Faith 8; title: 7. The Communication of Truth 12; title: 8. Summary 14; title: LECTURE II.; title: CLASSES OF AGNOSTICS ADDRESSED.; title: 1. Introduction : The Main Question 16; title: 2. Catholics and Agnostics 17; title: 3. Agnostic Atheists 18; title: 4. Justification of the Term 20; title: 5. Atheistic Theists and Theistic Atheists 22; title: 6. Unconscious Theists and Unconscious Atheists 24; title: 7. The Question eminently Practical 26; title: 8. Summary 30; title: LECTURE III.; title: THE NATURE OF EVIDENCE.; title: 1. Introduction 32; title: 2. Certainty and Probability 32; title: 3. Foundation and Superstructure 35; title: 4. Misapprehensions of Evidence 35; title: 5. Kinds of Evidence 36; title: 6. Real Evidence 39; title: 7. Laws of Evidence 40; title: 8. Summary 44; title: LECTURE IV.; title: THE PRE-OCCUPATION OF WORLDLINESS AS SECULARISM AND POSITIVISM.; title: 1. Introduction 48; title: 2. The First Proposition 49; title: 3. Secularism is Atheism 50; title: 4. Atheism is simply a Negation 52; title: 5. The Second Proposition 53; title: 6. Secularism professes to be a System 54; title: 7. Secularism is not a System 54; title: 8. Secularism Unworthy of Trust 55; title: LECTURE V.; title: SECULARISTIC POSITIVISM AS CRITICAL.; title: 1. Introduction 58; title: 2. The Secularistic Positivisms Criticism 59; title: 3. " Our Common Christianity " 61; title: 4. The Catholic Faith 62; title: 5. The Extent of Disbelief 65; title: 6. Some Words in Reply 67; title: 7. Atheism and Secular Conduct 72; title: 8. Summary 75; title: LECTURE VI.; title: CONCERNING THE SUPERNATURAL.; title: 1. Introduction 78; title: 2. The Supernatural 78; title: 3. The Antithesis 80; title: 4. The "Supernatural" and Prayer 87; title: 5. A Common Question 87; title: 6. Are there Laws of Prayer? 89; title: 7. The Need of Prayer 91; title: 8. The Answer 92; title: LECTURE VII.; title: THE SUPERNATURAL IN LIMITATION; title: 1. Introduction 93; title: 2. Limitation as to Method 94; title: 3. The Obligation to Greatness 95; title: 4. A Strange Story 97; title: 5. The Supernatural in Providence 98; title: 6. The Supernatural in Christ 99; title: 7. The Revelation of Love 100; title: 8. Summary 101; title: LECTURE VIII.; title: THE SUPERNATURAL IN EVOLUTION.; title: 1. Introduction 104; title: 2. The Implied Reproach 106; title: 3. The Evolution of Ethics 107; title: 4. The Ethics of Evolution 108; title: 5. Man not the "Creature of Circumstances", 111; title: 6. The Higher Life 112; title: 7. The Alternatives 115; title: 8. Summary 120; title: Second Series.; title: LECTURE I.; title: CERTAINTY AS FAITH IN TRUTH AND RIGHT (a).; title: 1. Introduction 125; title: 2. Trueness and Rightness 126; title: 3. Trueness in Words and Thoughts 127; title: 4. Trueness as Absolute and as Obligatory 129; title: 5. Trueness and Rightness in the Universe 131; title: 6. Untrueness and Unrightness 133; title: 7. Classes of Errors 134; title: 8. Errors Classified 137; title: LECTURE II.; title: CERTAINTY AS FAITH IN TRUTH AND RIGHT; title: 1. Introduction 138; title: 2. Classes of Wrongs 138; title: 3. Analytical Statement of both Classes 143; title: 4. Trueness and Untrueness as Correspondence and Non-Correspondence 143; title: 5. Recapitulation 146; title: 6. Condensed Summary 147; title: 7. Rightness and Unrightness as Correspondence and Non-Correspondence 147; title: 8. Summary 149; title: LECTURE III.; title: CERTAINTY AS SCIENTIFIC {a).; title: 1. Introduction 151; title: 2. Differentiation and Assimilation of Things. 151; title: 3. Differentiation and Assimilation of Thoughts 152; title: 4. The General Function of Science 153; title: 5. The Differentiation of Religion and Science 154; title: 6. Science as Knowledge, Comprehension, and Belief 155; title: 7. Credibility and Comprehensibility 158; title: 8. Verification and Experience 159; title: LECTURE IV.; title: CERTAINTY AS SCIENTIFIC (b).; title: 1. Introduction 162; title: 2. Inference and Experience 162; title: 3. The Sensible and the Non-Sensible 164; title: 4. Characteristics of Scientific Knowledge 165; title: 5. Characteristics of Scientific Belief 166; title: 6. An Analysis of Consciousness 166; title: 7. Reduction to Absurdity 168; title: 8. Summary 169; title: LECTURE V.; title: CERTAINTY AS RELIGIOUS {a).; title: 1. Introduction 171; title: 2. Two Uses of the Word Certainty 171; title: 3. The Law of Subjective Certainty 172; title: 4. Subjective Certainty touching Evidence 174; title: 5. Causes of Uncertainty 175; title: 6. The Basal Certainty of Theism 178; title: 7. Why are there Atheists? 179; title: 8. Is God Knowable? 180; title: LECTURE VI.; title: CERTAINTY AS RELIGIOUS (b).; title: 1. Introduction 182; title: 2. The Absolute and Omnipresent Power 182; title: 3. Strange Misuse of the Word "Unknowable" 183; title: 4. The Universal Cause 184; title: 5. The Cause Known in the Effects 184; title: 6. The Spirituality of the Divine Nature 186; title: 7. The Omnipresent Power not less than Personal 188; title: 8. Summary 189; title: LECTURE VII.; title: CERTAINTY AS CHRISTIAN (a).; title: 1. Introduction : The Divine Character 191; title: 2. General Objections to Theism 193; title: 3. Designer and Evolver 195; title: 4. The Standpoint Reached 197; title: 5. The Primary Obligation to Believe 199; title: 6. Regret for Unbelief 201; title: 7. Sub-Christian Theists and the Church 204; title: 8. Summary 207; title: LECTURE VIII.; title: CERTAINTY AS CHRISTIAN (d).; title: 1. Introduction 214; title: 2. Intuition of God 216; title: 3. Knowledge of God 217; title: 4. Agnosticism and Catholicism 220; title: 5. Faith in the Blessed Trinity 221; title: 6. The Normal Relations of God and Man 222; title: 7. The Incarnation of the Son of God 222; title: 8. Summary 225; title: SUMMARIES 229; title: PROPOSITIONS 249; title: NOTES.; title: 1. The Term Agnostic 253; title: 2. Two Kinds of Unknowable 253; title: 3. The Authority of Consciousness 257; title: 4. Atheism, etc 259; title: 5. Cases and Causes of Unbelief 260; title: 6. The Interest of Religion 265; title: 7. Baptism and Belief 271; title: 8. Buddhism 280; title: 9. Influence of the East on the West 285; title: 10. Theosophy 286; title: 11. Authenticity 287; title: 12. Genuineness 287; title: 13. Spuriousness 288; title: 14. Mr. Spencer as a Theologian 289; title: SPECIAL INDEX 291; title: GENERAL INDEX 297