A Faith For Today

By Harris Franklin Rall

Table of Contents

  TITLE PAGE
  A FOREWORD
CHAPTER 1 THE MEANING OF FAITH
  1. The Loss of Faith
  2. What Faith Is and Does
  3. The Battle of Faiths
  4. A Faith for Today
CHAPTER 2 WHAT RELIGION IS AND DOES
  1. The Roots of Religion
  2. What Religion Is and Does
  3. The Marks of Religion
CHAPTER 3 WHAT IS THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION?
  1. Christianity in History
  2. What Is the Essence of Christianity?
  3. Two Ways of Looking at Christianity
  4. The Religion of a Person
  5. The Religion of Redemptive Good
  6. The Religion of the Spirit
  7. Permanence and Advance
CHAPTER 4 FAITH IN GOD
  1. The Grounds for Belief in God
  2. The Right to Believe
CHAPTER 5 SCIENCE AND RELIGION
  1. Science in the Modern World
  2. The Service of Science
  3. Science and the Knowledge of God
  4. Science and Religion in the Life of Men
CHAPTER 6 HOW CAN I KNOW GOD?
  1. What It Means to Know God
  2. The Ways of Knowing God
  3. The Certainty of God
CHAPTER 7 HOW SHALL WE THINK OF GOD?
  1. A Personal God
  2. A Good God
  3. The God of Power
  4. The Farness and the Nearness of God
CHAPTER 8 GOD AND THE WORLD
  1. The Living God
  2. Natural and Supernatural
  3. God in the World of Nature
  4. Concerning Providence and Miracles
  5. God in Human History
  6. God in the Life of the Individual
CHAPTER 9 GOD AND THE FACT OF EVIL
  1. The Problem of Evil
  2. The Problem of the Good
  3. A World of Order
  4. A World of Fellowship
  5. A World of Pain
  6. A World of Freedom and Toil
  7. Some Errors and Problems
  8. Religion's Final Answer
CHAPTER 10 WHAT IS MAN?
  1. The Origin of Man
  2. What Is Man?
  3. Human Nature : Good or Bad?
CHAPTER 11 WHAT SIN IS AND DOES
  1. Our Lessened Sense of Sin
  2. What Is Sin?
  3. The Consequences of Sin
CHAPTER 12 WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE SAVED?
  1. The Place of Salvation in Religion
  2. To What Are We Saved?
  3. From What Are We Saved?
  4. By What Are We Saved?
CHAPTER 13 SALVATION : THE CHRISTIAN WAY
  1. God as the Challenge to Man
  2. The Response of Man to God
  3. The Death of Christ and the Saving of Men
  4. The Remaking of Man
CHAPTER 14 THE WAYS OF LIFE
  1. The Way of Love
  2. The Way of Truth
  3. The Way of Joy
  4. The Way of Work
CHAPTER 15 PRAYER
  1. What Is Prayer?
  2. The Laws of Prayer
  3. The Practice of Prayer
  4. What Shall We Ask For?
CHAPTER 16 THE MEANING AND PLACE OF THE BIBLE
  1. Yesterday and Today
  2. The Book of God and the Book of Man
  3. Theories Old and New
  4. How Shall We Use the Bible?
CHAPTER 17 I BELIEVE IN THE CHURCH
  1. The Inevitable Church
  2. What Is the Church?
  3. The Function of the Church
  4. The Church and the Churches
CHAPTER 18 THE LIFE TO COME
  1. Time and the Eternal
  2. Faith in the Life Eternal
  3. The Grounds for Our Belief
  4. Some Questions and Objections
  5. About Judgment and Hell
CHAPTER 19 A SOCIAL FAITH
  1. The Social Need
  2. The Relevancy of Religion
  3. Individual and Social
  4. We Need Social Salvation
  5. What Has Christianity to Offer?
  6. The Christian Way