Ten Great Religions: An Essay in Comparative Theology, Volum 1

Houghton, Mifflin, 1899 - 528 pàgines

INTRODUCTION	1

It will show that while most of the Religions of the World are Eth	15

CHAPTER II	32

BRAHMANISM	77

Helps from Comparative Philology The Aryans in Central Asia	85

The Aryans in India The Native Races The Vedic Age Theol ogy of the Vedas	89

Second Period Laws of Manu The Brahmanic Age	100

The Three Hindoo Systems of Philosophy The Sankhya Vedanta and Nvasa	114

Influence upon Judaism and Christianity	250

CHAPTER VII	259

Idea and general Character of Greek Religion	266

The Gods of Greece before Homer	270

The Gods of the Poets	277

The Gods of the Artists	286

The Gods of the Philosophers	291

Worship of Greece	297

Origin of the Hindoo Triad	123

The Epics the Puranas and Modern Hindoo Worship	128

Relation of Brahmanism to Christianity	135

CHAPTER IV	139

Extent of Buddhism Its Scriptures	146

Sakyamuni the Founder of Buddhism	148

Leading Doctrines of Buddhism	153

The Spirit of Buddhism Rational and Humane	156

Buddhism as a Religion	159

Karma and Nirvana	161

Good and Evil of Buddhism	164

Relation of Buddhism to Christianity	167

CHAPTER V	171

Greek Accounts of Zoroaster Plutarchs Description of his Religion	175

Anquetil du Perron and his Discovery of the Zend Avesta	178

Epoch of Zoroaster What do we know of him?	180

Spirit of Zoroaster and of his Religion	182

Character of the Zend Avesta	187

Later Development of the System in the Bundehesch	194

Relation of the Religion of the Zend Avesta to that of the Vedas	201

Is Monotheism or pure Dualism the Doctrine of the Zend Avesta	203

Relation of this System to Christianity The Kingdom of Heaven	204

CHAPTER VI	209

Religious Character of the Egyptians Their Ritual	214

Theology of Egypt Sources of our Knowledge concerning it	223

Central Idea of Egyptian Theology and Religion Animal Worship	225

Sources of Egyptian Theology Age of the Empire and Affinities of the Race	230

The Three Orders of Gods	239

The Mysteries Orphism	301

Relation of Greek Religion to Christianity 398	308

CHAPTER VIII	316

The Gods of Rome	321

Worship and Ritual	331

The Decay of the Roman Religion	339

Relation of the Roman Religion to Christianity	347

CHAPTER IX	355

Idea of the Scandinavian Religion	362

The Eddas and their Contents	363

The Gods of Scandinavia	376

Resemblance of the Scandinavian Mythology to that of Zoroaster	384

Scandinavian Worship	385

Social Character Maritime Discoveries and Political Institutions of the Scandinavians	387

Relation of this System to Christianity	390

CHAPTER X	397

Abraham or Judaism as the Family Worship of a Supreme Being	402

or Judaism as the national Worship of a just and holy King	409

David or Judaism as the personal Worship of a Father and Friend	421

Solomon or the Religious Relapse	428

The Prophets or Judaism as a Hope of a spiritual and universal Kingdom of God	438

Judaism as a Preparation for Christianity	444

MOHAMMED AND ISLAM	448

NOTE	486

Christianity a Pleroma or Fulness of Life	492

Christianity and the Religions of Egypt Greece and Rome	499

Christianity as a Religion of Progress and of universal Unity	507

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Títol	Ten Great Religions: An Essay in Comparative Theology, Volum 1 Ten Great Religions: An Essay in Comparative Theology, James Freeman Clarke
Autor	James Freeman Clarke
Editor	Houghton, Mifflin, 1899
Original de	Universitat de Califòrnia
Digitalitzat el	23 Maig 2017
Nre. de pàgines	528 pàgines

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