Preface to Androcles and the Lion:

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Author

Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950

Title

On the Prospects of Christianity Bernard Shaw's Preface to Androcles and the Lion

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Produced by Eve Sobol, and David Widger

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English

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PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

Subject

Christianity

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4004

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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4004

Release Date

May 1, 2003

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Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.PREFACE TO ANDROCLES AND THE LION: — ON THE PROSPECTS OF CHRISTIANITY
3. 3.By Bernard Shaw — 1912 — PREFACE ON THE PROSPECTS OF CHRISTIANITY
4. 4.WHY NOT GIVE CHRISTIANITY A TRIAL?
5. 5.WHY JESUS MORE THAN ANOTHER?
6. 6.WAS JESUS A COWARD?
7. 7.WAS JESUS A MARTYR?
8. 8.THE GOSPELS WITHOUT PREJUDICE.
9. 9.THE GOSPELS NOW UNINTELLIGIBLE TO NOVICES.
10. 10.WORLDLINESS OF THE MAJORITY.
11. 11.RELIGION OF THE MINORITY. SALVATIONISM.
12. 12.THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ATONEMENT AND PUNISHMENT
13. 13.SALVATION AT FIRST A CLASS PRIVILEGE; AND THE REMEDY
14. 14.RETROSPECTIVE ATONEMENT, AND THE EXPECTATION OF THE REDEEMER
15. 15.COMPLETION OF THE SCHEME BY LUTHER AND CALVIN
16. 16.JOHN BARLEYCORN
17. 17.LOOKING FOR THE END OF THE WORLD
18. 18.THE HONOR OF DIVINE PARENTAGE
19. 19.MATTHEW.
20. 20.THE ANNUNCIATION: THE MASSACRE: THE FLIGHT
21. 21.JOHN THE BAPTIST
22. 22.JESUS JOINS THE BAPTISTS
23. 23.THE SAVAGE JOHN AND THE CIVILIZED JESUS
24. 24.JESUS NOT A PROSLETYST
25. 25.THE TEACHINGS OF JESUS.
26. 26.THE MIRACLES
27. 27.MATTHEW IMPUTES DIGNITY TO JESUS.
28. 28.THE GREAT CHANGE.
29. 29.JERUSALEM AND THE MYSTICAL SACRIFICE.
30. 30.NOT THIS MAN BUT BARRABAS
31. 31.THE RESURRECTION.
32. 32.DATE OF MATTHEW'S NARRATIVE.
33. 33.CLASS TYPE OF MATTHEW'S JESUS
34. 34.THE WOMEN DISCIPLES AND THE ASCENSION.
35. 35.LUKE.
36. 36.LUKE THE LITERARY ARTIST.
37. 37.THE CHARM OF LUKE'S NARRATIVE.
38. 38.THE TOUCH OF PARISIAN ROMANCE.
39. 39.WAITING FOR THE MESSIAH.
40. 40.JOHN.
41. 41.A NEW STORY AND A NEW CHARACTER.
42. 42.JOHN THE IMMORTAL EYEWITNESS.
43. 43.THE PECULIAR THEOLOGY OF JESUS.
44. 44.JOHN AGREED AS TO THE TRIAL AND CRUCIFIXION.
45. 45.CREDIBILITY OF THE GOSPELS.
46. 46.FASHIONS OF BELIEF.
47. 47.CREDIBILITY AND TRUTH.
48. 48.CHRISTIAN ICONOLATRY AND THE PERILS OF THE ICONOCLAST.
49. 49.THE ALTERNATIVE TO BARRABAS.
50. 50.THE REDUCTION TO MODERN PRACTICE OF CHRISTIANITY.
51. 51.MODERN COMMUNISM.
52. 52.REDISTRIBUTION.
53. 53.SHALL HE WHO MAKES, OWN.
54. 54.LABOR TIME.
55. 55.THE DREAM OF DISTRIBUTION ACCORDING TO MERIT.
56. 56.VITAL DISTRIBUTION.
57. 57.EQUAL DISTRIBUTION.
58. 58.THE CAPTAIN AND THE CABIN BOY.
59. 59.THE POLITICAL AND BIOLOGICAL OBJECTIONS TO INEQUALITY.
60. 60.JESUS AS ECONOMIST.
61. 61.JESUS AS BIOLOGIST.
62. 62.MONEY THE MIDWIFE OF SCIENTIFIC COMMUNISM.
63. 63.JUDGE NOT.
64. 64.LIMITS TO FREE WILL.
65. 65.JESUS ON MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY.
66. 66.WHY JESUS DID NOT MARRY.
67. 67.INCONSISTENCY OF THE SEX INSTINCT.
68. 68.FOR BETTER OR WORSE.
69. 69.THE CASE FOR MARRIAGE.
70. 70.CELIBACY NO REMEDY.
71. 71.AFTER THE CRUCIFIXION.
72. 72.THE VINDICTIVE MIRACLES AND THE STONING OF STEPHEN.
73. 73.PAUL.
74. 74.THE CONFUSION OF CHRISTENDOM.
75. 75.THE SECRET OF PAUL'S SUCCESS.
76. 76.PAUL'S QUALITIES
77. 77.THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES.
78. 78.THE CONTROVERSIES ON BAPTISM AND TRANSUBSTANTIATION.
79. 79.THE ALTERNATIVE CHRISTS.
80. 80.CREDULITY NO CRITERION.
81. 81.BELIEF IN PERSONAL IMMORTALITY NO CRITERION.
82. 82.THE SECULAR VIEW NATURAL, NOT RATIONAL, THEREFORE INEVITABLE.
83. 83."THE HIGHER CRITICISM."
84. 84.THE PERILS OF SALVATIONISM.
85. 85.THE IMPORTANCE OF HELL IN THE SALVATION SCHEME.
86. 86.THE RIGHT TO REFUSE ATONEMENT.
87. 87.THE TEACHING OF CHRISTIANITY.
88. 88.CHRISTIANITY AND THE EMPIRE.

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