Revealed religion
By: from the Apologie des Christenthums of Franz Hettinger ; edited with an introd. on the Assent of Faith by Henry Sebastian Bowden.
Contributors: Bowden, Henry Sebastian, 1836-1919.
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Published: 1895
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: Apologetics -- History -- 19th century.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: TABLE OF CONTENTS; title: INTRODUCTION; title: THE ASSENT OF FAITH; title: Definition of Faith. Kant, Hegel, Lux Mundi i; title: Pietists make Faith a purely subjective assent 2; title: The motive of Catholic Faith objective 3; title: Belief on the authority of God speaking 4; title: Faith a supernatural virtue, impossible without grace 5; title: Non-Catholic proofs of a Revelation only intrinsic 6; title: Protestants, the Bible only 7; title: Rationalists, the doctrines as approved by reason 7; title: Fichte's Pantheistic Christianity 8; title: Catholics prove Revelation from external evidence 9; title: As is shown from the Fathers 10; title: The twofold proof of miracles and prophecy 11; title: Interior evidence, negative and positive 12; title: Theology defends and defines doctrine 13; title: But interior evidence confirmatory, not demonstrative 14; title: Reality of the proof from miracles 15; title: The Gospels more credible than any secular history 16; title: Evidence and certitude contrasted 17; title: Revelation certain, not evident 18; title: Doubt possible if a maximum of proof be demanded 19; title: The precepts of faith and charity 20; title: The certainty of faith super omnia, subjective 21; title: Because of the homage of the will to God speaking 22; title: Co-operation of reason and grace 23; title: Faith, knowledge, vision 24; title: CHAPTER I; title: POSSIBILITY OF REVELATION; title: Natural knowledge of God insufficient 27; title: God illuminates the soul from within 28; title: Natural inspiration, Mozart 29; title: Universal belief in Revelation 30; title: God unchanged by revealing 31; title: Revelation attested by external signs 32; title: Faith without knowledge superstition 33; title: Knowledge without faith scepticism 34; title: Mysteries in nature 35; title: Agreement of reason and faith 36; title: Belief in mystery the beginning of a supernatural life 37; title: And the principle of all true religion 38; title: The light of faith explains sacred mysteries 39; title: And illuminates merely natural truths 40; title: Corruptions of heathenism 41; title: Triumphs of faith 42; title: CHAPTER II; title: NECESSITY OF REVELATION; title: Traditionalism by depreciating reason 44; title: Leaves no logical defence for religion 45; title: Fallen human nature, though wounded, still entire 46; title: Necessity of Revelation relative, not absolute 47; title: Religions of paganism superstitious and cruel 48; title: Human sacrifices 49; title: Contempt of pagans for their gods 50; title: Truth sought in vain 51; title: Idolatry maintained for state purposes 52; title: Scepticism and superstition naturally allied 53; title: Degrading beliefs and advanced civilisation 54; title: Heathen sages not teachers 55; title: Their errors and immoralities 56; title: Wisdom for the few 57; title: Contempt of the multitude 58; title: Failure of reason unaided by grace 59; title: One teacher only, Christ and His Church 60; title: Teaches all men all truth 61; title: And its teaching forms the basis of morality 62; title: Christianity shows also the nature of sin 63; title: And for the sacrifices of paganism 64; title: Substitutes the one atonement in Christ 65; title: In Him all things are restored 66; title: In temptation and conflict 67; title: The Christian conquers through Christ 68; title: CHAPTER III; title: MIRACLES AND PROPHECY; title: Revelation an external fact, attested by miracles and prophecy 70; title: A miracle defined 71; title: Threefold division of miracles 72; title: Universal practice of prayer shows belief in possibility of miracles 73; title: This belief is reasonable, and in accordance with the order of God's Providence 74; title: The miraculous in nature 75; title: Twofold end of creatures, particular and universal 76; title: Miracles never denied by Jews or pagans 77; title: Distinguishing marks of true and false miracles 78; title: True miracles the seal on Divine truth 79; title: Objections to miracles 80; title: They imply no change in God 81; title: The moral necessity of miracles, as arresting the attention of all 82; title: And begetting conviction of the truths they attest 83; title: Modern depreciation of their value, sign of unbelief 84; title: Hume's objection 85; title: Rests on two gratuitous assumptions 86; title: A miracle cognisable with only ordinary knowledge 87; title: As is shown by several instances 88; title: Prophecy defined 89; title: Prophecies, like miracles, true and false 90; title: Oracles and mediums 91; title: Marks of a prophet from God 92; title: The sceptic's demand of a miracle unreal and unreasonable 93; title: CHAPTER IV; title: CREDIBILITY OF THE GOSPELS; title: External evidence of their credibility furnished 95; title: By the transformation of the world by Christianity 95; title: Which is inexplicable, unless the Gospel narrative be true 96; title: The independent witness of pagan historians 97; title: Tacitus — Suetonius 98; title: Official report on Christians of Pliny 99; title: Josephus 100; title: The Jewish Talmud 101; title: The Gospel a witness to its own truth 102; title: The Gospels as public documents 103; title: Texts and authorship jealously guarded 104; title: Patristic evidence to their number and rank 105; title: Down to close of second century 106; title: External evidence — The Itala, the Peschito, heretical writers 107; title: The Church's custody of apostolic tradition 108; title: And of unity of faith 109; title: Internal evidence — Their simplicity and directness 110; title: Competency of the Evangelists as biographers of Christ 111; title: The character they describe wholly original 112; title: Forgery impossible 113; title: Renan's inventions and conjectures 114; title: Gospel accuracy of detail 115; title: The records of eye-witnesses 116; title: Personal qualifications of the Evangelists 117; title: Special weight of St. Paul's evidence 118; title: The sceptical-mythical theory 119; title: If Christianity a popular myth, why then persecuted? 120; title: Why did it find expression in Christianity alone? 121; title: The myth, the product of a race in its infancy 122; title: The Gospel period an age of culture and criticism 123; title: The Gospels universally accepted 150 A. D. 124; title: The Gospel discrepancies a proof of their truth 125; title: Individual representations of one central Figure 126; title: Agreement of St John and the Synoptics 127; title: Apocryphal and Canonical Gospels contrasted 128; title: Vitality of the Gospels 129; title: CHAPTER V; title: THE DIVINITY OF CHRIST; title: Christ's appeal to His miracles 130; title: In proof of His Divinity 131; title: Connection of His words and works 132; title: Publicity of the miracles 133; title: Their symbolic character 134; title: Their effects clearly supernatural 135; title: Renan's attempted explanation 136; title: The subjects of His miraculous power 137; title: The sick and suffering 138; title: Self-sacrifice of Christ a moral miracle 139; title: The Resurrection the crowning miracle 140; title: Proofs of its reality 141; title: Change in the Apostles 142; title: Sceptical hypotheses, imaginary visions 143; title: Their evident improbability 144; title: Witness of St. Paul 145; title: The mythical theory 146; title: Sceptical objections ever the same 147; title: Conversion of the world without a miracle, itself miraculous 48; title: CHAPTER VI; title: PROPHECY AND FULFILMENT; title: Israel in itself insignificant 149; title: Yet most important as the Guardian of Revelation 150; title: Monothiesm not "a Semitic instinct" 151; title: For Israel constantly relapses to idolatry 152; title: But a supernatural gift 153; title: Office of Israel to lead man to Christ 154; title: Universal expectation of the Messias, when Christ came 155; title: The priests and Herod, Zachary 156; title: Non-inspired writings, Josephus 15; title: Tacitus, Suetonius, Virgil 158; title: Inspired prophecy, patriarchs, Psalms 159; title: Twofold portraiture — glory and shame 160; title: The weeks of Daniel 161; title: The Minor Prophets 162; title: Fulfilment of prophecy in Christ 163; title: Cause of Israel's apostacy 164; title: Christ Himself a Prophet 165; title: The destruction of Jerusalem 166; title: Its attempted rebuilding 167; title: The Jews still a witness to Christ 168; title: Fulfilment of Christ's prophecies in His Church 169; title: CHAPTER VII; title: CHRIST AND CHRISTIANITY; title: Christianity always in conflict, whence its strength? 171; title: Alleged Christian origins 172; title: Yet those same causes failed in other systems 173; title: Christ, His words and works 174; title: His Passion and death 175; title: Christ and Socrates 176; title: Viator and Comprehensor 177; title: Power of His sacrifice 178; title: Christ reproduced in His followers 179; title: Rivals of Christianity 180; title: Mahomedanism merely naturalism 181; title: Buddhism essentially atheistic 182; title: The Church a standing miracle 183; title: Testimony of St. Cyprian 184; title: APPENDIX; title: THE TUBINGEN THEORY; title: The date of the Gospels 187; title: General agreement of orthodox and rationalist critics 188; title: The difference as to authority and authorship 189; title: The so-called Petrine and Pauline parties 190; title: Evidence of St Paul 191; title: His relations with St. Peter 192; title: No sign of disunion in the Church 193; title: St. Ignatius and St. Poly carp 194; title: Hegesippus 195; title: Importance of his evidence for East and West 196; title: Justin Martyr and the Church of Ephesus 197; title: Irenseus, Gaul, and Asia Minor 198; title: His reverence for Rome 200; title: Continued chain of evidence 201; title: The Tubingen theory an arbitrary hypothesis 202; title: The Church one in Christ 203; title: INDEX 205