Ranging from popular newspaper pieces to learned defenses of the faith, the 48 essays and 12 letters in this book cover topics as varied as the logic of theism, good and evil, miracles, vivisection, the role of women in church polity, and ethics and politics.
Contents:
Preface by Walter Hooper
PART I
- Evil and God
- Miracles
- Dogma and the Universe
- Answers to Questions on Christianity
- Myth Became Fact
- 'Horrid Red Things'
- Religion and Science
- The Laws of Nature
- The Grand Miracle
- Christian Apologetics
- Work and Prayer
- Man or Rabbit?
- On the Transmission of Christianity
- 'Miserable Offenders'
- The Founding of the Oxford Socratic Club
- Religion without Dogma?
- Some Thoughts
- 'The Trouble with "X"...'
- What Are We to Make of Jesus Christ?
- The Pains of Animals
- Is Theism Important?
- Rejoinder to Dr Pittenger
- Must Our Image of God Go?
PART II
- Dangers of National Repentance
- Two Ways with the Self
- Meditation on the Third Commandment
- On the Reading of Old Books
- Two Lectures
- Meditation in a Toolshed
- Scraps
- The Decline of Religion
- Vivisection
- Modern Translations of the Bible
- Priestesses in the Church?
- God in the Dock
- Behind the Scenes
- Revival or Decay?
- Before We Can Communicate
- Cross-Examination
PART III
- 'Bulverism'
- First and Second Things
- The Sermon and the Lunch
- The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment
- Xmas and Christmas
- What Christmas Means to Me
- Delinquents in the Snow
- Is Progress Possible?
- We Have No 'Right to Happiness'
PART IV
Letters
Index
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