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Preface 7 Introduction 8 BOOK I. Of the Existence of God. 12 CHAPTER I. Views of Monotheistic Philosophers on the Natural Foundation of a Reasonable Belief in God. Refutation of Ontologism and of the so-called Ontological Argument. 12 SECTION 1. -- Explanation of the different opinions about God's existence and the proofs for it. 12 SECTION 2. -- Refutation of Ontologism. 14 SECTION 3. -- Criticism of the Ontological Argument. 20 CHAPTER II. Proofs for the Existence of an Intelligent First Cause or Personal God. 25 SECTION 1. -- Method of Proof. 25 SECTION 2. -- The Argument of the First Cause. 26 SECTION 3. -- The Argument from Design. 34 SECTION 4. -- The Moral Proof. 44 SECTION 5. -- Logical consequences of Agnosticism. 52 CHAPTER III. On the Fundamental Attributes of the Personal God and his Fundamental Relation to Things Distinct from Him. 57 SECTION 1. -- The Unity of God 57 SECTION 2. -- The Simplicity of God. 61 SECTION 3. -- The Infinity of God. 65 CHAPTER IV. The Fundamental Relation of God to the World. Refutation of Pantheism. Doctrine of Creation. 71 SECTION 1. -- Definition of Creation. 71 SECTION 2. -- Pantheism. 73 SECTION 3. -- The Contingency of the World. 76 SECTION 4. -- The Dependence of all things on God. 77 SECTION 5. -- Proof of an Immediate Influence of God. 77 SECTION 6. -- Proof of Creation. 78 SECTION 7. -- Possibility and limitation of the world accounted for by the Divine Infinity. 79 SECTION 8. -- Proof that God alone can create. 82 SECTION 9. -- Proof that God is the immediate Author of Mind and Matter. 85 SECTION 10. -- Creation a free act of God's will. 87 SECTION 11. -- Creation not necessarily Eternal. 89 SECTION 12. -- On the possibility of Eternal Creation. 91 SECTION 13. -- The beginning of this World. 93 CHAPTER V. Solution of Difficulties against the Fundamental Truths of Natural Theology. 96 SECTION 1. -- Arguments urged by Traditionalists in favour of the opinion, that only by faith can we be certain of God's existence. 96 SECTION 2. -- Kant's difficulties against the proofs of God's existence. 97 SECTION 3. -- Difficulties of Spencer and Mill against the proof of a First Cause. 100 SECTION 4. -- Difficulties of Mill and Lange against the Argument from Design. 106 SECTION 5. -- Darwin's reasons for doubting the existence of God. 115 SECTION 6. -- Spinoza's proof that God is the only substance, and that everything else is a mode of God. 126 SECTION 7. -- Remarks on the theories of Fichte, Hegel, and others. 129 SECTION 8. -- Aristotle's reasons for the necessity of eternal motion Similar modern arguments from the writings of Kant and Cousin. 131 SECTION 9. -- Mansel's arguments for the doctrine that all our attempts to form to ourselves the idea of God involve us in contradiction. 134 BOOK II. The Divine Attributes. 145 CHAPTER I. The Immutability of God. 147 CHAPTER II. The Eternity of God. 151 CHAPTER III. The Immensity of God. 155 CHAPTER IV. The Divine Intellect. 160 SECTION 1. -- The perfection of the Divine Intellect contrasted with the defects of the human. 160 SECTION 2. -- God's Knowledge completely determined by His Essence. 162 SECTION 3. -- The objects of Divine Thought. 164 SECTION 4. -- The manner in which God knows the free acts of His rational creatures. 173 SECTION 5. -- The Divisions of the Divine Knowledge. 177 CHAPTER V. The Divine Will. 180 SECTION 1. -- Necessity aud freedom of the Will of God. 181 SECTION 2. -- Holiness and other moral attributes of the Divine Will. 188 SECTION 3. -- The Will of God as supreme Life and Beatitude. 193 CHAPTER VI. The Omnipotence of God. 197 CHAPTER VII. The Metaphysical Essence of God. 201 BOOK III. The Action of God upon This World. 213 CHAPTER I. Divine Preservation and Concurrence. 214 SECTION 1. -- The Divine conservation of creatures. 214 & More!

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