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Cycle I. First and last things
Book 1. Metaphysics
The necessity for metaphysics
The resumption of metaphysical enquiry
The world of fact
Scepticism of the instrument
The classificatory assumption
Empty terms
Negative terms
Logic static and life kinetic
Planes and dialects of thought
Practical conclusions from these considerations
Beliefs
Summary
Book 2. Of Beliefs
My primary act of faith
On using the name of God
Free will and predestination
A picture of the world of men
The problem of motives, the real problem of life
A review of motives
The synthetic motive
The being of mankind
Individuality an interlude
The mystic element
The synthesis
Of personal immortality
A criticism of Christianity
Of other religions
Summary
Book 3. Of General Conduct
Conduct follows from belief
What is good?
Socialism
A criticism of certain forms of socialism
Hate and love
The preliminary social duty
Wrong ways of living
Social parasitism and contemporary injustices
The case of the wife and mother
Associations
Of an organized brotherhood
Concerning new starts and new religions
The idea of the church
Of secession
A dilemma
A comment
War
War and competition
Modern war
Of abstinences and disciplines
On forgetting, and the need of prayer, reading, discussion and worship
Democracy and aristocracy
On debts of honour
The idea of justice
Of love and justice
The weakness of immaturity
Possibility of a new etiquette
Sex
The institution of marriage
Conduct in relation to the thing that is
Conduct towards transgressors
Book 4. Some Personal Things
Personal love and life
The nature of love
The will to love
Love and death
The consolation of failure
The last confession
Cycle II. God the Invisible King
The Cosmogony of Modern Religion
Modern religion has no founder
Modern religion has a finite God
The infinite being is not God
The life force is not God
God is within
The coming of God
Heresies; or the things that God is not
Heresies are misconceptions of God
Heresies of speculation
God is not magic
God is not providence
The heresy of quietism
God does not punish
God and the nursery-maid
The children’s God
The likeness of God
God is courage
God is a person
God is youth
When we say god is love
The religion of atheists
The scientific atheist
Sacrifice implies God
God is an external reality
Another religious materialist
A note on a lecture by professor Gilbert Murray
Religion as ethics
The invisible King
Modern religion, a political religion
The will of God
The crucifix
The primary duties
The increasing kingdom
What is my place in the kingdom?
Adjusting life
The oath of allegiance
The priest and the creed
The universalism of God
God and the love and status of women
Modern ideas of sin and damnation
The biological equivalent of sin
What is damnation?
Sin is not damnation
The sins of the insane
Believe, and you are saved
The idea of a church
The world dawn
Convergent religious movements
Can there be a true church?
Organisations under God
The state is God’s instrument