E-text prepared by Chuck Greif
FOR
PROPOSED TO TEACHERS BY
RABBI AND PROFESSOR,
MEMBER OF THE ORIENTAL AND LEIPSIC, HALLE,
ETC., ETC., ETC.
BY
STATIONERS'—HALL COURT.
MDCCCLV.
london:
printed by j. wertheimer and co.
circus place, finsbury circus.
| SYNOPSIS. | |
| Notice by the Translator. | Author's Preface. |
| chapter I. | |
| GOD. | |
| 1. His existence. Cosmological argument. | 4. All-wise, good, pure, immutable. |
| 2. First Cause, necessary, eternal. | 5. God. |
| 3. Omnipotent, free, provident, omniscient, infallible. | 6. Psychological argument. |
| 7. Moral argument. | |
| chapter II. | |
| MAN. | |
| 8. His faculties. | 14. Double tendency. |
| 9. His destination. | 15. Contrast. |
| 10. Intellect. | 16. Choice. |
| 11. Reason. | 17. Conscience. |
| 12. Free will. | 18. Feeling. |
| 13. Immortal soul. | |
| chapter III. | |
| NATURAL RELIGION. | |
| 19. Idea of religion. | 21. Faith. |
| 20. Necessity for man. | |
| chapter IV. | |
| INSUFFICIENCY OF NATURAL RELIGION. | |
| 22. Obstacles. | 27. Internal anarchy. |
| 23. Tardy development of reason. | 28. Limitation of human understanding. |
| 24. Ascendancy of sensuality. | 29. Uncertainty of human knowledge. |
| 25. Want of opportunity. | 30. Experience. |
| 26. Social life. | 31. Necessity of a revelation. |
| chapter V. | |
| REVEALED RELIGION. | |
| 32. Its actuality. | 37. Essence of revelation. |
| 33. Its truth. | 38. Lofty aspiration of man. |
| 34. Its fundamental principle. | 39. Prophecy. |
| 35. Relation between God and man. | 40. Prediction of the future. |