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