The Essence of Christianity

by Feuerbach, Ludwig

• ISBN13: 9780879755591
• ISBN10: 0879755598
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1989-10-01
• Publisher: Prometheus

Table of Contents

Preface	xiii
I. Introduction	1	(32)
1. The Essential Nature of Man	1	(11)
2. The Essence of Religion Considered Generally	12	(21)
PART I. THE TRUE OR ANTHROPOLOGICAL ESSENCE OF RELIGION	33	(152)
II. God as a Being of the Understanding	33	(11)
III. God as a Moral Being or Law	44	(6)
IV. The Mystery of the Incarnation; or, God as Love, as a Being of the Heart	50	(9)
V. The Mystery of the Suffering God	59	(6)
VI. The Mystery of the Trinity and the Mother of God	65	(9)
VII. The Mystery of the Logos and Divine Image	74	(6)
VIII. The Mystery of the Cosmogonical Principle in God	80	(7)
IX. The Mystery of Mysticism, or of Nature of God	87	(14)
X. The Mystery of Providence and Creation out of Nothing	101	(11)
XI. The Significance of the Creation in Judaism	112	(8)
XII. The Omnipotence of Feeling, or the Mystery of Prayer	120	(6)
XIII. The Mystery of Faith--The Mystery of Miracle	126	(9)
XIV. The Mystery of the Resurrection and of the Miraculous Conception	135	(5)
XV. The Mystery of the Christian Christ, or the Personal God	140	(10)
XVI. The Distinction between Christianity and Heathenism	150	(10)
XVII. The Significance of Voluntary Celibacy and Monachism	160	(10)
XVIII. The Christian Heaven, or Personal Immortality	170	(15)
PART II. THE FALSE OR THEOLOGICAL ESSENCE OF RELIGION	185	(96)
XIX. The Essential Standpoint of Religion	185	(12)
XX. The Contradiction in the Existence of God	197	(7)
XXI. The Contradiction in the Revelation of God	204	(9)
XXII. The Contradiction in the Nature of God in General	213	(13)
XXIII. The Contradiction in the Speculative Doctrine of God	226	(6)
XXIV. The Contradiction in the Trinity	232	(4)
XXV. The Contradiction in the Sacraments	236	(11)
XXVI. The Contradiction of Faith and Love	247	(23)
XXVII. Concluding Application	270	(11)
APPENDIX	281
1. The Religious Emotions Purely Human	281	(2)
2. God is Feeling Released from Limits	283	(1)
3. God is the Highest Feeling of Self	284	(1)
4. Distinction between the Pantheistic and Personal God	285	(2)
5. Nature without Interest for Christians	287	(2)
6. In God Man is his Own Object	289	(3)
7. Christianity the Religion of Suffering	292	(1)
8. Mystery of the Trinity	293	(4)
9. Creation out of Nothing	297	(1)
10. Egoism of the Israelitish Religion	298	(1)
11. The Idea of Providence	299	(5)
12. Contradiction of Faith and Reason	304	(2)
13. The Resurrection of Christ	306	(1)
14. The Christian a Supermundane Being	307	(1)
15. The Celibate and Monachism	308	(7)
16. The Christian Heaven	315	(1)
17. What Faith Denies on Earth it Affirms in Heaven	316	(1)
18. Contradictions in the Sacraments	317	(3)
19. Contradiction of Faith and Love	320	(6)
20. Results of the Principle of Faith	326	(6)
21. Contradiction of the God-Man	332	(4)
22. Anthropology the Mystery of Theology	336