Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Chapter 1 The Two Faces of Christianity 4
Chapter 2 The Human Condition 12
Chapter 3 A Very Brief History of the Christian Church 48
Chapter 4 The Christian Scriptures 63
Chapter 5 The Humanistic Face of Christianity 76
Chapter 6 The Authoritarian Face of Christianity 149
Chapter 7 Humanistic and Authoritarian Christianity: The ideas of Jesus and Paul compared 185
Chapter 8 Humanistic and Authoritarian Christianity compared 280
Chapter 9 Why has the Christian Church been so spectacularly successful in establishing itself as a world religion? 317
Chapter 10 The difficulties many Christians will have in constructively hearing what I am saying in this book 321
Chapter 11 Does it all matter anyway? 326
Chapter 12 Epilogue 340
Appendix 1 The School 349
Appendix 2 Paradise Lost 352
Appendix 3 A Brief Account of Albert Schweitzer's Ethical Principle of Reverence for Life 354
Appendix 4 Some of Paul's Pathologies not Unique in the New Testament 358
Notes 361
Bibliography 386
Additional Reading 388
Acknowledgements 391