Taking issue with Hegel's sense that God, as Logos, is somehow central to all that is, Feuerbach explores his own notion that Christianity, as religion, grew quite naturally from ordinary human observation. Only upon deeper, systematic reflection did people postulate a divine source--God. Religious teaching which loses sight of its own essential rootedness in human experience runs the risk becoming overly abstract, disconnected even, from realities which shape humanity and which impart meaning and dignity to life. Fuerbach illustrates this not only on the example of the doctrine of God, but also with respect to creation, prayer, miracles, Trinitarianism, sacramentalism, and other dogmas at the core of Christianity. (Introduction by Rom Maczka)
Chapters
1 00 - Preface, Part I 20 min 2 01 - Preface, Part II 18 min 3 02 - The Essential Nature of Man 35 min 4 03 - The Essence of Religion Considered Generally, Part I 34 min 5 04 - The Essence of Religion Considered Generally, Part II 28 min 6 05 - God as a Being of Understanding 36 min 7 06 - God as Moral Being or Law 16 min 8 07 - Chapter 4 - The Mystery of the Incarnation; or, God as Love, as a Being of the Heart 28 min 9 08 - Chapter 5 - The Mystery of the Suffering God 18 min 10 09 - Chapter 6 - The Mystery of the Trinity and the Mother of God 27 min 11 10 - Chapter 7 - The Mystery of the Logos and Divine Image 18 min 12 11 - Chapter 8 - The Mystery of the cosmogonical Principle in God 21 min 13 12 - Chapter 9 - The Mystery of Mysticism, or of Nature in God, Part I 22 min 14 13 - Chapter 9 - The Mystery of Mysticism, or of Nature in God, Part II 23 min 15 14 - Chapter 10 - The Mystery of Providence and Creation out of Nothing 31 min 16 15 - Chapter 11 - The Significance of Creation in Judaism 22 min 17 16 - Chapter 12 - The Omnipotence of Feeling, or the Mystery of Prayer 18 min 18 17 - Chapter 13 - The Mystery of Faith - the Mystery of Miracle 26 min 19 18 - Chapter 14 - The Mystery of the Resurrection and of the Miraculous Conception 14 min 20 19 - Chapter 15 - The Mystery of the Christian Christ, or the Personal God 28 min 21 20 - Chapter 16 - The Distinction between Christianity and Heathenism 30 min 22 21 -Chapter 17 - The Significance of Voluntary Celibacy and Monachism 25 min 23 22 -Chapter 18 - The Christian Heaven, or Personal Immortality, Part I 23 min 24 22 -Chapter 18 - The Christian Heaven, or Personal Immortality , Part II 26 min 25 24 -Chapter 19 - The Essential Standpoint of Religion 36 min 26 25 - Chapter 20 - The Contradiction in the Existence of God 23 min 27 26 - Chapter 21 - The Contradiction in the Revelation of God 27 min 28 27 - Chapter 22 - The Contradiction in the nature of God in general 43 min 29 28 - Chapter 23 - The Contradiction in the Speculative Doctrine of God 18 min 30 29 - Chapter 24 - The Contradiction in the Trinity 12 min 31 30 - Chapter 25 - The Contradiction in the Sacraments 31 min 32 31 - Chapter 26 - The Contradiction of Faith and Love, Part I 34 min 33 32 - Chapter 26 - The Contradiction of Faith and Love, Part II 35 min 34 33 - Chapter 27 - Concluding Application 23 min
