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PREFACE ON THE PROSPECTS OF GHRISTIANITY 9

Why not give Christianity a Trial？ 9

Why Jesus more than Another？ 11

Was Jesus a Coward？ 12

Was Jesus a Martyr？ 13

The Gospels without Prejudice 14

The Gospels now Unintelligible to Novices 15

Worldliness of the Majority 16

Religion of the Minority．Salvationism 17

The Difference between Atonement and Punishment 18

Salvation at first a Class Privilege；and the Remedy 19

Retrospective Atonement；and the Expectation of the Redeemer 20

Completion of the Scheme by Luther and Calvin 21

John Barleycorn 22

Looking for the End of the World 23

The Honor of Divine Parentage 24

MATTHEW 25

The Annunciation：the Massacre：the Flight 25

John the Baptist 27

Jesus Joins the Baptists 27

The Savage John and the Civilized Jesus 28

Jesus not a Proselytist 29

The Teachings of Jesus 30

The Miracles 31

Matthew imputes Bigotry to Jesus 33

The Great Change 34

Jerusalem and the Mystical Sacrifice 35

Not this Man but Barabbas 36

The Resurrection 36

Date of Matthew＇s Narrative 36

Class Type of Matthew＇s Jesus 37

MARK 38

The Women Disciples and the Ascension 38

LUKE 40

Luke the Literary Artist 40

The Charm of Luke＇s Narrative 40

The Touch of Parisian Romance 41

Waiting for the Messiah 42

JOHN 44

A New Story and a New Character 44

John the Immortal Eye-Witness 45

The Peculiar Theology of Jesus 48

John agreed as to the Trial and Crucifixion 49

Credibility of the Gospels 50

Fashions in Belief 52

Credibility and Truth 53

Christian Iconolatry and the Peril of the Iconoclast 55

The Alternative to Barabbas 56

The Reduction to Modern Practice of Christianity 58

Modern Communism 60

Redistribution 61

Shall He who Makes，Own？ 61

Labor Time 62

The Dream of Distribution according to Merit 63

Vital Distribution 64

Equal Distribution 65

The Captain and the Cabin Boy 66

The Political and Biological Objections to Inequality 67

Jesus as Economist 67

Jesus as Biologist 68

Money the Midwife of Scientific Communism 69

Judge Not 70

Limits to Free Will 71

Jesus on Marriage and the Family 73

Why Jesus did not Marry 74

Inconsistency of the Sex Instinct 75

For Better for Worse 76

The Remedy 77

The Case for Marriage 78

Celibacy no Remedy 78

After the Crucifixion 80

The Vindictive Miracles and the Stoning of Stephen 80

Paul 82

The Confusion of Christendom 86

The Secret of Paul＇s Success 87

Paul＇s Qualities 88

The Acts of the Apostles 89

The Controversies on Baptism and Transubstantiation 91

The Alternative Christs 93

Credulity no Criterion 94

Belief in Personal Immortality no Criterion 95

The Secular View Natural，not Rational，therefore Inevitable 96

＇The Higher Criticism＇ 97

The Perils of Salvationism 98

The Importance of Hell in the Salvation Scheme 99

The Right to Refuse Atonement 100

The Teaching of Christianity 100

Christianity and the Empire 102

ANDROCLES AND THE LION 111

Appendix to the Play 152