In this book, Joseph Butler examines Christianity. He discusses its importance, its proofs, the unavoidableness of its containing strange things, the absurdity of expecting fully to comprehend its statements. He answers not only the objections to Christianity, but the objections against its proofs; which he shows are very different things.
Editors Introduction; Preface; Conspectus; Introduction; A Future Life;
The Government of God by Rewards and Punishments; The Moral Government of
God; Probation, as implying Trial, Difficulties, and Danger; Probation, as
intended for Moral Discipline and Improvement; The Opinion of Necessity,
considered as influencing Practice; The Government of God, considered as a
Scheme or Constitution, imperfectly comprehended; The Importance of
Christianity; The supposed Presumption against a Revelation, considered as
miraculous; Our Incapacity of judging, what were to be expected in a
Revelation; and the Credibility, from Analogy, that it must contain things
appearing liable to Objections; Christianity, considered as a Scheme or
Constitution, imperfectly comprehended; The Particular System of
Christianity; the Appointment of a Mediator, and the Redemption of the World
by him; Want of Universality in Revelation; and of the supposed Deficiency in
the Proof of it; The Particular Evidence for Christianity; Objections against
arguing from the Analogy of Nature to Religion; Dissertation I: Personal
Identity; Dissertation: The Nature of Virtue; Index.
