sm--Paul's discourse to the Athenians--Intolerance
of the intellectuals--Craving for fame--Struggle for survival 38-57

IV

THE ESSENCE OF CATHOLICISM

Immortality and resurrection--Development of idea of immortality in
Judaic and Hellenic religions--Paul and the dogma of the
resurrection--Athanasius--Sacrament of the
Eucharist--Lutheranism--Modernism--The Catholic
ethic--Scholasticism--The Catholic solution 58-78

V

THE RATIONALIST DISSOLUTION

Materialism--Concept of substance--Substantiality of the
soul--Berkeley--Myers--Spencer--Combat of life with
reason--Theological advocacy--_Odium anti-theologicum_--The
rationalist attitude--Spinoza--Nietzsche--Truth and consolation
79-105

VI

IN THE DEPTHS OF THE ABYSS

Passionate doubt and Cartesian doubt--Irrationality of the problem
of immortality--Will and intelligence--Vitalism and
rationalism--Uncertainty as basis of faith--The ethic of
despair--Pragmatical justification of despair--Summary of preceding
criticism 106-131

VII

LOVE, SUFFERING, PITY, AND PERSONALITY

Sexual love--Spiritual love--Tragic love--Love and
pity--Personalizing faculty of love--God the Personalization of the
All--Anthropomorphic tendency--Consciousness of the Universe--What
is Truth?--Finality of the Universe 132-155

VIII

FROM GOD TO GOD

Concept and feeling of Divinity--Pantheism--Monotheism--The
rational God--Proofs of God's existence--Law of necessity--Argument
from _Consensus gentium_--The living God--Individuality and
personality--God a multiplicity--The God of Reason--The God of
Love--Existence of God 156-185

IX

FAITH, HOPE, AND CHARITY

Personal element in faith--Creative power of faith--Wishing that
God may exist--Hope the form of faith--Love and suffering--The
suffering God--Consciousness revealed through
suffering--Spiritualization of matter 186-215

X

RELIGION, THE MYTHOLOGY OF THE BEYOND, AND THE APOCATASTASIS

What is religion?--The longing for immortality--Concrete
representation of a future life--Beatific vision--St.
Teresa--Delight requisite for happiness--Degradation of
ene