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Auguste Sabatier. Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History
Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History
Table of Contents
PREFACE
BOOK FIRST. RELIGION
CHAPTER I
ON THE PSYCHOLOGICAL ORIGIN, AND ON THE NATURE OF RELIGION
CHAPTER II
RELIGION AND REVELATION
CHAPTER III
MIRACLE AND INSPIRATION
CHAPTER IV
THE RELIGIOUS DEVELOPMENT OF HUMANITY
BOOK SECOND. CHRISTIANITY
CHAPTER I
HEBRAISM, OR THE ORIGINS OF THE GOSPEL
CHAPTER II
THE ESSENCE OF CHRISTIANITY
CHAPTER III
THE GREAT HISTORICAL FORMS OF CHRISTIANITY
BOOK THIRD. DOGMA
CHAPTER I
WHAT IS A DOGMA?
CHAPTER II
THE LIFE OF DOGMAS AND THEIR HISTORICAL EVOLUTION
CHAPTER III
THE SCIENCE OF DOGMAS
CHAPTER IV
CRITICAL THEORY OF RELIGIOUS KNOWLEDGE
APPENDIX
REPLY TO CRITICISMS
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Auguste Sabatier
Published by Good Press, 2021
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I now understand why "natural religion" is not a religion. It deprives man of prayer; it leaves God and man at a distance from each other. No intimate commerce, no interior dialogue, no exchange between them, no action of God in man, no return of man to God. At bottom, this pretended religion is nothing but philosophy. It arises in periods of rationalism, of criticism, of impersonal reason, and has never been anything but an abstraction. The three dogmas in which it is summed up—the existence of God, the immortality of the soul, and the obligation of duty—are but the inorganic residue, the caput mortuum, found at the bottom of the crucible in which all positive religions are dissolved. This natural religion, so called, is not found in Nature; it is no more natural than it is religious. A lifeless, artificial creation, it shows hardly any of the characteristic marks of a religion. For the moment, it may seem to have the advantage of escaping the attacks of scientific criticism. On trial, it is found to be less resistant than any other. The self-same reason that constructed it destroys it, and its dogmas are perhaps more compromised to-day in face of modern thought than those it professes to replace.
Religion then is inward prayer and deliverance. It is inherent in man and could only be torn from his heart by separating man from himself, if I may so say, and destroying that which constitutes humanity in him. I am religious, I repeat, because I am a man, and neither have the wish nor the power to separate myself from my kind.
