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CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTION.
ETHNIC AND CATHOLIC RELIGIONS.
§ 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 Apol-
ogists
4. How Ethnic Religions were regarded by Christ and his Apostles
5. Comparative Theology will furnish a new Class of Evidences in
Support of Christianity
§ 6. It will show that, while most of the Religions of the World are Eth-
nic, or the Religions of Races, Christianity is Catholic, or adapted
to become the Religion of all Races
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3
4
9
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15
7. It will show that Ethnic Religions are partial, Christianity universal 21
8. It will show that Ethnic Religions are arrested, but that Christianity
is steadily progressive
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CHAPTER II.
CONFUCIUS AND THE CHINESE, OR THE PROSE OF ASIA.
2. Chinese Government based on Education. Civil-Service Examina-
tions
6. Religious Character of the "Kings."
7. Confucius and Christianity. Character of the Chinese
§8. The Tae-ping Insurrection
NOTE. The Nestorian Inscription in China
CHAPTER III.
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38
44
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58
62
71
BRAHMANISM.
1. Our Knowledge of Brahmanism. Sir William Jones
77
2. Difficulty of this Study. The Complexity of the System. The
Hindoos have no History. Their Ultra-Spiritualism.
81
4.
3. Helps from Comparative Philology. The Aryans in Central Asia
The Aryans in India. The Native Races. The Vedic Age. Theol-
ogy of the Vedas.
85
89
§ 5.
Second Period. Laws of Manu. The Brahmanic Age
100
§ 6.
The Three Hindoo Systems of Philosophy, — The Sankhya, Vedanta,
and Nvasa
114
§ 7.
Origin of the Hindoo Triad.
8.
The Epics, the Puranas, and Modern Hindoo Worship
128
9.
Relation of Brahmanism to Christianity
CHAPTER IV.
BUDDHISM, OR THE PROTESTANTISM OF THE EAST.
§ 1. Buddhism, in its Forms, resembles Romanism; in its Spirit, Prot-
§ 2. Extent of Buddhism. Its Scriptures
3. Sakya-muni, the Founder of Buddhism
4. Leading Doctrines of Buddhism
5. The Spirit of Buddhism Rational and Humane.
6. Buddhism as a Religion
7. Karma and Nirvana
8. Good and Evil of Buddhism
9. Relation of Buddhism to Christianity
ZOROASTER AND THE ZEND AVESTA.
1. Ruins of the Palace of Xerxes at Persepolis
171
2. Greek Accounts of Zoroaster. Plutarch's Description of his Religion 175
3. Anquetil du Perron and his Discovery of the Zend Avesta.
4. Epoch of Zoroaster. What do we know of him?
8. Relation of the Religion of the Zend Avesta to that of the Vedas
9. Is Monotheism or pure Dualism the Doctrine of the Zend Avesta .
10. Relation of this System to Christianity. The Kingdom of Heaven. 204
182
187
194
. 201
3. Theology of Egypt. Sources of our Knowledge concerning it
. 209
214
. 223
4. Central Idea of Egyptian Theology and Religion. Animal Worship 225
5. Sources of Egyptian Theology. Age of the Empire and Affinities
1. Origin and essential Character of the Religion of Rome
2. Idea of the Scandinavian Religion
362
3. The Eddas and their Contents
363
4. The Gods of Scandinavia
376
5. Resemblance of the Scandinavian Mythology to that of Zoroaster
6. Scandinavian Worship
384
385
7. Social Character, Maritime Discoveries, and Political Institutions of
the Scandinavians
§ 8. Relation of this System to Christianity
387
390
CHAPTER X.
THE JEWISH RELIGION.
1. Palestine, and the Semitic Races
397
2. Abraham; or, Judaism as the Family Worship of a Supreme Being 402
3. Moses: or, Judaism as the national Worship of a just and holy King 409
4. David; or, Judaism as the personal Worship of a Father and Friend 421
5. Solomon; or, the Religious Relapse
6. The Prophets; or, Judaism as a Hope of a spiritual and universal
Kingdom of God
§ 7. Judaism as a Preparation for Christianity
428
4. Change in the Character of Mohammed after the Hegira
5. Religious Doctrines and Practices among the Mohammedans
6. The Criticism of Mr. Palgrave on Mohammedan Theology
§ 7. Mohammedanism a Relapse; the worst Form of Monotheism, and a
retarding Element in Civilization
NOTE
CHAPTER XII.
THE TEN RELIGIONS AND CHRISTIANITY.
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452
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465
472
478
481
486
1. General Results of this Survey
2. Christianity & Pleroma, or Fulness of Life
3. Christianity, as a Pleroma, compared with Brahmanism, Confu-
cianism, and Buddhism
§ 4. Christianity compared with the Avesta and the Eddas. The Duad
in all Religions
§ 5. Christianity and the Religions of Egypt, Greece, and Rome
6. Christianity in Relation to Judaism and Mohammedanism.
Monad in all Religions
7. The Fulness of Christianity is derived from the Life of Jesus
8. Christianity as a Religion of Progress and of universal Unity
489
492
494