Natural Religion: The Ultimate Religion of Mankind

by Joseph Shaw Bolton

Overview

Driven by the dissatisfaction and turmoil in religion at the time this book was originally published in 1923, the author sets out a belief that all people have an inborn religion and investigates what the future of this religion might be as it changes from age to age. In the short chapters here the author reflects on the current trends in theology at the time and the history of Christianity.

This is an early critique of formalised religion and a simple advocacy of natural religion which is a glimpse into the basic philosophy of the early twentieth century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135980122
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/18/2013
Series:	Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	136
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Joseph Shaw Bolton

Table of Contents

1. Reasonable Religion  2. Religion is a Natural Production  3. Bed-Rock  4. The Origin of a Religion  5. The Origin of Altruism  6. The Purpose of Our Universe  7. Is God a Person?  8. What is Natural Religion  9. The Divinity of Man  10. The Christmas Message  11. As I would Do If I were God  12. The Urge of God  13. What is the Business of Life  14. Number One  15. Self Expression Not Self Denial  16. God’s Great Plan  17. The Passing of Sacrifice  18. It Pays to Do Right  19. Ignorance the One Evil  20. By Thine Own Soul’s Light Learn to Live  21. The New Birth  22. God Consiousness  23. Does it Ring True?  24. Is Life a Conflict?  25. Without Shedding of Blood  26. Parables  27. Prayer  28. The Future of Religion  29. Fundamental Errors  30. The Fallacy of a Paid Clergy  31. Natural Religion the Only Permanent Religion  32. God Make Us Men