: Ten Great Religions: An Essay in Comparative Theology by Clarke James Freeman - Christianity and other religions; Religions Islam

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Introduction.--Ethnic and Catholic Religions.

? 1. Object of the present Work ? 2. Comparative Theology; its Nature, Value, and present Position ? 3. Ethnic Religions. Injustice often done to them by Christian Apologists ? 4. How Ethnic Religions were regarded by Christ and his Apostles ? 5. Comparative Theology will furnish a new Class of Evidences in Support of Christianity ? 6. It will show that, while most of the Religions of the World are Ethnic, or the Religions of Races, Christianity is Catholic, or adapted to become the Religion of all Races ? 7. It will show that Ethnic Religions are partial, Christianity universal ? 8. It will show that Ethnic Religions are arrested, but that Christianity is steadily progressive

Confucius and the Chinese, or the Prose of Asia.

? 1. Peculiarities of Chinese Civilization ? 2. Chinese Government based on Education. Civil-Service Examinations ? 3. Life and Character of Confucius ? 4. Philosophy and subsequent Development of Confucianism ? 5. Lao-tse and Tao-ism ? 6. Religious Character of the "Kings." ? 7. Confucius and Christianity. Character of the Chinese ? 8. The Tae-ping Insurrection Note. The Nestorian Inscription in China

Brahmanism.

? 1. Our Knowledge of Brahmanism. Sir William Jones ? 2. Difficulty of this Study. The Complexity of the System. The Hindoos have no History. Their Ultra-Spiritualism ? 3. Helps from Comparative Philology. The Aryans in Central Asia ? 4. The Aryans in India. The Native Races. The Vedic Age. Theology of the Vedas ? 5. Second Period. Laws of Manu. The Brahmanic Age ? 6. The Three Hindoo Systems of Philosophy,--The Sankhya, Vedanta, and Nyasa ? 7. Origin of the Hindoo Triad ? 8. The Epics, the Puranas, and Modern Hindoo Worship ? 9. Relation of Brahmanism to Christianity

Buddhism, or the Protestantism of the East.

? 1. Buddhism, in its Forms, resembles Romanism; in its Spirit, Protestantism ? 2. Extent of Buddhism. Its Scriptures ? 3. Sakya-muni, the Founder of Buddhism ? 4. Leading Doctrines of Buddhism ? 5. The Spirit of Buddhism Rational and Humane ? 6. Buddhism as a Religion ? 7. Karma and Nirvana ? 8. Good and Evil of Buddhism ? 9. Relation of Buddhism to Christianity

Zoroaster and the Zend Avesta.

? 1. Ruins of the Palace of Xerxes at Persepolis ? 2. Greek Accounts of Zoroaster. Plutarch's Description of his Religion ? 3. Anquetil du Perron and his Discovery of the Zend Avesta ? 4. Epoch of Zoroaster. What do we know of him? ? 5. Spirit of Zoroaster and of his Religion ? 6. Character of the Zend Avesta ? 7. Later Development of the System in the Bundehesch ? 8. Relation of the Religion of the Zend Avesta to that of the Vedas ? 9. Is Monotheism or pure Dualism the Doctrine of the Zend Avesta ? 10. Relation of this System to Christianity. The Kingdom of Heaven

The Gods of Egypt.

? 1. Antiquity and Extent of Egyptian Civilization ? 2. Religious Character of the Egyptians. Their Ritual ? 3. Theology of Egypt. Sources of our Knowledge concerning it ? 4. Central Idea of Egyptian Theology and Religion. Animal Worship ? 5. Sources of Egyptian Theology. Age of the Empire and Affinities of the Race ? 6. The Three Orders of Gods ? 7. Influence upon Judaism and Christianity

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