Religion


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1 Faith as the foundation of religion, other accounts of the origin of religion.
2 The nature, cause, and conditions of faith, its specific objects.
3 The sources of religious belief.
4 Revelation, the word of God and divine authority, the denial of religion in the name of revelation.
5 Miracles and signs as divine confirmation.
6 The testimony of prophets, the anointed of God.
7 The virtue and practice of religion, piety as justice to God.
8 Prayer and supplication, their efficacy.
9 Worship and adoration, the rituals and ceremonials of religion.
10 The nature, institution, and uses of the sacraments.
11 Sacrifices and propitiations.
12 Fasting and almsgiving.
13 Purificatory rites, the remission of sin by baptism and penance, the concept of regeneration.
14 Religious hypocrisy, profanations and sacrileges.
15 The religious life, religious offices and the religious community.
16 The Jewish conception of the religious community, the Torah and the Temple.
17 The Christian conception of the church, the doctrine of the mystical body of Christ.
18 The social institutions of religion, religious vocations.
19 The institution of the priesthood and other ecclesiastical offices.
20 Ecclesiastical government and hierarchy.
21 The support of ecclesiastical institutions, tithes, contributions, state subsidy.
22 The monastic life, the disciplines of asceticism.
23 Church and state, the relation between religion and secular factors in society.
24 Religion in relation to forms of government, the theocratic state.
25 The service of religion to the state and the political support of religion by the state.
26 The dissemination of religion.
27 The function of preaching.
28 Religious conversion.
29 Religious education.
30 Truth and falsity in religion.
31 The religious condemnation of idolatry, magic, sorcery, or witchcraft, denunciations of superstition.
32 Religious apologetics, the defense of faith.
33 The unity and tradition of a religion.
34 The role of dogma in religion, orthodoxy and heresy, the treatment of heretics.
35 Sects and schisms arising from divergences of belief and practice.
36 The world religions, the relation between people of diverse faiths, the attitude of the faithful toward infidels.
37 Religious liberty, freedom of conscience, religious toleration.
38 The rejection of supernatural foundations for religion, the criticism of particular beliefs and practices, the psychogenesis of religion.
39 The relation of religion to the arts and sciences, the impact of secularization.
40 Religion as myth, neither true nor false.
41 Observations in history and literature concerning religious beliefs, institutions, and controversies.


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