The Essence of Christianity / Translated from the second German edition

by Ludwig Feuerbach

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Contents

1. Publishers’ Note
2. Preface to the Second Edition
3. Introduction
4. God as a Being of the Understanding
5. God as a Moral Being, or Law
6. The Mystery of the Incarnation; Or, God as Love, as a Being of the Heart
7. The Mystery of the Suffering God
8. The Mystery of the Trinity and the Mother of God
9. The Mystery of the Logos and Divine Image
10. The Mystery of the Cosmogonical Principle in God
11. The Mystery of Mysticism, or of Nature in God
12. The Mystery of Providence, and Creation Out of Nothing
13. The Significance of the Creation in Judaism
14. The Omnipotence of Feeling, or the Mystery of Prayer
15. The Mystery of Faith—The Mystery of Miracle
16. The Mystery of the Resurrection and of the Miraculous Conception
17. The Mystery of the Christian Christ, or the Personal God
18. The Distinction Between Christianity and Heathenism
19. The Christian Significance of Voluntary Celibacy and Monachism
20. The Christian Heaven, or Personal Immortality
21. The Essential Standpoint of Religion
22. The Contradiction in the Existence of God
23. The Contradiction in the Revelation of God
24. The Contradiction in the Nature of God in General
25. The Contradiction in the Speculative Doctrine of God
26. The Contradiction in the Trinity
27. The Contradiction in the Sacraments
28. The Contradiction of Faith and Love
29. Concluding Application
30. Explanations—Remarks—Illustrative Citations
31. The English and Foreign Philosophical Library

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