Subject Index
A
Absolute, The, 13.
Acts of religion, 40 sqq.; Interior, 40 sqq.; External, 45 sqq.
Adalbert, St., 94.
Adonis, 96.
Adoration, 42 sq.
Æschylus, On religion, 27.
Africa, Religion among the Primitive races of, 104 sqq.
Agreement, Religion not the result of a common, 60 sq.
Ahriman, 89 sq.
Alaric, 17.
Allat, 97.
Aluzza, 97.
America, Primitive religions of, 110 sqq.
“Americanism,” Condemned by Leo XIII, 12.
Amon-Râ, 99.
Ancestor-worship, 65, 69 sq., 108.
Andaman Islanders, 109 sq.
Aniambia, 105.
Animal-worship, Egyptian, 100 sq.
Animals, Instinct vs. intelligence in, 84 sq.
Annales Ecclesiastici of Baronius, 21.
Anthropos, 55.
Antoninus Pius, 17.
Anu, 95 sq.
Apparitions, 81 sq.
Apologia, 3.
Apologists, The first, 15 sq., 17.
Arabs, Religion of the ancient, 97 sq.
Aristotelianism of the Schoolmen, 19.
Artimidor, 52.
Asshûr, 95.
Assyrians, Religion of the, 95 sqq.
Astarte, 96.
Asura, 88.
Atheism, 53 sqq., 56 sqq.; Bacon on, 63; as a phase of religion according to Sir John Lubbock, 85 sq.
Augustine, St., “De Civitate Dei,” 17 sqq.; On the derivation of “Religion,” 26; On the use of the word, 28.
Aurmazd, 89.
Australia, Medicine men in southeastern, 71; Primitive religions of, 108 sqq.
Authority, 38.
Avesta, 89 sqq.
Aztecs, Human sacrifices among, 64.
B
Baal, 96.
Babel, 94.
Babumba, 106.
Babylonians, Religion of the, 94 sqq.
Bacon, Lord, On atheism, 63.
Baldr, 93.
Baronius, Cesare, 21.
Bartoli, G., 12.
Bashilanges, 107.
Bateke, 106.
Bayle, Pierre, 22.
Baynazi, 106.
Beginnings of Fundamental Theology, 14 sqq.
Bel, 95 sq.
Bellarmine, Robert, 21.
Blondel, M., 11 sqq.
Bog, 94.
Brahma, Contemplation of, not sufficient to redeem man from suffering, 41 sq.; Double meaning of the word, 73, 74; As god, 88.
Brazil, 111.
Broglie, P. de, 9.
Brückner, A., 94 sq.
Brunner, Sebastian, 56.
Büchner, L., 53.
Buddha, 55.
Buddhism, 53, 55 sq., 89, 102 sq.
Bushmen, 105 sq.
C
Cano, Melchior, 21.
Carneades of Cyrene, 53.
Catholicism in conflict with the Protestant Reformation, 20 sqq.
Causality, Law of, 70 sq.
Ceylon, 55.
Charity, 42.
Charms, 67.
China, Population of, 55, 55; Gods of ancient, 61; Ancestor-worship in, 69 sq.; Ancient religions of, 101 sqq.
Cicero, On the derivation of the term “Religion,” 26 sq.; On the nature of religion, 27; On the universality of religion, 51.
Civilization, Religion and, 118 sqq.
Chuhsi, 103.
Clement of Alexandria, 92 sq.
Climate, Influence of, on religion, 64.
Comparative religion, Beginning of the science of, 20; On the idea of God among the Indo-Germanic and Semite nations of antiquity, 86 sqq.; Missionaries and, 107.
Comte, A., 66.
Confucius, 101 sqq.
“Consciousness of the infinite,” 77.
Conversions, Sudden, 80 sqq.
Cumont, 91.
Cures, 80.
Cyprian, St., On Christ as the Messias, 16.
D
Darwin, Chs., 111.
De Brosses, C., 66.
Deception, Religion not invented for purposes of, 59 sqq.
Defection of mankind from primitive Monotheism, 115 sqq.
Deism, Catholicism in conflict with, 22.
Delitzsch, F., 95.
Demonstratio religiosa, Christiana, Catholica, 5.
Dependence of man on God, 29 sqq., 33 sqq., 41, 42, 46 sq.
De Rougé, 98.
Desert, Alleged Monotheistic character of the, 100 sq.
Despair, 37.
Deus, 86.
Deva, 86.
Dharma, 89.
Diagoras, 53 sq.
Diana, 92.
Diognetus, Letter to, 27.
Disinclination of savages to talk about their religious beliefs, 54.
Dogma, Modernist conception of, 13, 78, 82.
Dogmatic Theology, 9.
Donar, 93.
Dreams, 67.
Driscoll, J. T., 66.
Duilhé de Saint-Projet, 9.
Drey, J. B. von, 23 sq.
Durkheim, E., 68.
Duty, Religion as a, 32 sqq., 34.
E
Ea, 94 sq.
Ecstasies, 80.
Edda, 93.
Egoism, 75.
Egotism, Religion a check on, 38.
Egypt, Gods of ancient, 61.
Egyptians, Religion of the ancient, 98 sqq.
Elohim, 86 sq.
Emotion, Religious, 43 sqq.; Religion not a mere, 77 sqq.
Environment, Influence of, on religion, 64.
Epicureanism, 76.
Epicurus, On the origin of religion, 61.
Eskimos, 110.
Euhemerism, 66.
Eusebius of Caesarea, “Evangelical Preparation” of, 17; On the use of the word “Religion,” 28.
Ewe races, 104.
Experience, Religious, 78 sq., 80 sqq., 84.
Ezechiel, 89.
F
Faber, 101.
Faith, 6, 10, 56, 62 sq., 77 sq.
Family, Religion necessary for the existence of the, 37 sq., 39.
Farrow, S. S., 107.
Fear, Its relation to the origin of religion, 61 sqq., 78, 114.
Fetishism, 65, 66 sq., 68, 84 sq.; 116.
Fogazzaro, A., 12.
Foundations of the faith, 3 sq., 6.
Fraud, Religion not introduced by, 59 sqq.
Free will, 22, 35, 40, 42 sqq., 47, 51 sq., 75, 115.
Fundamental Theology, Definition of, 3 sq.; Object of, 3 sqq.; Necessity of, 5 sqq.; Method of, 7 sqq.; The traditional method, 7 sq.; The empirical method, 8 sqq.; The historical method, 9 sqq.; The psychologico-moral method, 10 sqq.; The theory of immanence, 10 sqq.; “Americanism,” 14; Modernism, 14 sqq.; Development of, 14 sqq.; First period (1st to 8th century), 16 sqq.; Christianity in conflict with Judaism, 16 sqq.; Christianity in conflict with Paganism, 16 sqq.; Second period (8th to 15th century), 17 sqq.; Christianity in conflict with the Arabic philosophers, 17 sqq.; Christianity in conflict with Humanism, 19 sq.; Third period (15th to 20th century), 20 sqq.; Catholicism in conflict with the Protestant Reformation, 20 sqq.; Catholicism in conflict with Deism, 22; Catholicism in conflict with Materialism, 22 sq.; Catholicism in conflict with Rationalism, 22 sq.; Recent development of Fundamental Theology, 22 sqq.; Origin of the name, 22 sq.; Bibliography of, 130 sqq.
G
Gaboon, 105.
Genesis, 86 sq.
Gerbert, Martin, O. S. B., 23.
Gerland, 52.
Ghost-theory of religion, 65.
Giesswein, A., 87.
Gizycki, 71.
Glory of God, 33 sq.
Gnosticism, 41.
God, Man’s relation to, the foundation of religion, 28 sqq.; Philosophical notion of God, 28; God and religion, 29 sq.; Man’s duty to promote the honor and glory of God, 33 sq.; Worship of, 42 sqq.; The idea of God among the nations of antiquity, 86 sqq.; Origin of the Monotheistic concept of, 113 sqq.
Godless nations, None exist, 53 sqq.
Gold Coast, 104.
Gounja, 106.
Grace, 81.
Greece, Religion of ancient, 90.
Grotius, Hugo, 21 sq.
H
Hadad, 97.
Hadrian (Roman Emperor), 17.
Haeckel, E., 103.
Haffner, P., 63.
Hammurapi, 95.
Happel, 102.
Happiness, Eternal, 36 sq., 75 sq.
Harnack, Adolph, 13.
Hartmann, Ed. von, On religion as a product of animal instinct, 83; On Henotheism, 115 sq.
Hegel, 41.
Heiler, F., On the philosophical notion of God in relation to the God of living piety, 28.
Hel, 93.
Helmold of Bosau, 94.
Herbert of Cherbury, 22.
Herodotus, On religion, 27.
Hinduism, 88 sqq.
Hobbes, On the origin of religion, 60 sq.
Holbach, Baron, 22.
Homer, 52.
Hope, 43 sq.
Hottentots, 105 sq.
Hubert, 68.
Human sacrifices among the aborigines of Mexico, 64.
Humanism, Christianity in conflict with, 19 sq.
Hume, David, On the origin of religion, 61.
Humility, 42.
Huxley, Thos., 13.
I
Ibos, 104.
Idealism, Influence of on Catholic apologetics, 23.
Idolatry, 85.
Imagination, Rôle of, 43; Religion not a figment of the, 64 sqq.
Immanence, Theory of, 11 sqq.
Incantations, 67.
India, Religion of ancient, 61.
Indians of North, Central, and South America, 110.
Indo-Germanic religions, 86 sq., 88 sqq.
Indra, 88.
Infallibility of the Church, 21.
Instinct, 73, 74; Religion not a product of, 84 sqq.
Invention, Religion not a human, 58 sqq.
Intuition, 81.
Ishmael, 101.
Ishtar, 95.
J
Jabus, 104 sq.
Jakun, 110.
Janus, 92.
Januspater, 92.
Japan, 55.
Jerome, St., On the derivation of the word “Religion,” 26.
Jevons, F. B., 66.
Joy, 79 sq.
Judaism, Christianity in conflict with, 15 sqq., 18; Monotheistic, 115.
Justice, Religion as a species of, 31 sq.; Social justice based on religion, 38 sq.
Justin Martyr, St., Dialogue with Tryphon, 16 sq.; First Apology of, 17 sq.; Second Apology of, 17; On the use of the word “Religion,” 27.
K
Kaaba, 98.
Kaang, 105.
Kabbala, 20.
Kabesa, 107.
Kabirim, 96.
Kaffirs, 106.
Kage, 105.
Kari, 110 sq.
Karnak, Temple at, 99.
Kathenotheism, 114 sq.
Kneller, K. A. (S.J.), 62, 63.
Knowledge, Religious, 40 sqq.
Koi-Koin, 105.
Kong-tse, see Confucius.
Koran, 97.
Koyan, 108.
L
Lactantius on the derivation of the term “Religion,” 26 sq., 28.
“Lamentabili,” Decree of Pius X, 13.
Lao-tse, Theology of, 102 sq.
Legge, 101.
Leo XIII, On science and faith, 9; On “Americanism,” 12; On the duty of religion, 39; On divine worship as a duty of society, 47 sq.
Le Roy, Bishop, 106.
Le Roy, Ed., 12.
Lessing, G. E., 22.
Lichtenberg, 56.
Lieblein, 98.
Lithuanians, Religion of the ancient, 94.
Livy, T., On the binding force of religion, 27.
Loci Theologici of Melchior Cano, 21.
Loisy, A., 12.
Love of God, 43 sq.
Lubbock, Sir John, On nations without religion, 53 sq.; On evolutionary phases of religion, 84 sqq.; On the Hottentots, 105 sq.; On the Micronesians, 108.
Lucius Verus, 17.
Lucretius, On the origin of religion, 61.
Luther, Martin, 20.
M
Mabunda, 106.
Madagascans, 109 sq.
Magdeburg Centuriators, 21 sq.
Makalaka, 106.
Makolong, 105.
Malayans, 109 sq.
Man in his relation to God, 28 sqq.; His dependence on God, 28 sqq., 32 sqq.; His duty to promote the honor and glory of God, 33 sq.
Mana, 68 sq.
Manat, 97.
Manito, 110.
Marcus Aurelius, 17.
Marduk, 95.
Marsilio Ficino, 19.
Marutse, 106.
Materialism, Catholicism in conflict with, 22 sq.
Matrimony, 37 sq.
Mausbach, J., 82 sqq.
Mauss, 68.
Mawu, 104.
Mayr, Bede, O. S. B., 23.
Mecca, 98.
Melanesians, 108.
Melek, 96 sq.
Melkarth, 96 sq.
Messianic prophecies of the Old Testament, 15 sq.
Messias, The, 15.
Method of Fundamental Theology, 7 sqq., 24 sqq.
Mexico, Hideous and bloody cult of aborigines of, 64.
Micronesians, 108.
Mill, John Stuart, 78.
Mithra, 90.
Mithraism, 90.
Mohammed, 98.
Möhler, J. A., 23.
Monism, 103.
Monolatry, 115.
Monotheism, Justin Martyr on, 16; Alleged origin of, 65 sq.; Primitive, 69, 69 sq.; The primitive religion of mankind, 85 sqq.; vs. Henotheism, 115 sq.; vs. Paganism, 115 sqq.
Moors, 18.
Morality, Intimately bound up with religion, 72, 85.
Moral consciousness, 71 sqq.
Morality, Religion and, 30 sqq.; 34 sqq., 39 sq.
Moses, 16.
Motogon, 108.
Muhammad, 98.
Mulungu, 107.
Mythology, 113 sqq.
N
Nambe Njambe, 106.
Names of the deity, 86 sq.
Narthus, 93.
Nations, Religion in the life of, 51 sqq.
Natural Religion, Nature and duty of, 32 sqq.
Natural science, 8 sqq.
Nature-worship, 61 sq., 65, 85 sq., 116.
Ndsakumba, 106.
Necessity of Fundamental Theology, 5 sqq.; Of religion, 32 sqq.
Newman, J. H., 32.
Nigeria, Southern, 107.
Nirvâna, 55.
Numa Pompilius, 92.
Nurrundere, 108.
O
Obedience, 38.
Obligation, Moral, 34.
Odin, 93.
Ogowe, 105.
Ollé-Laprune, L., 11.
Orenda, 68 sq.
Origin of religion, 58 sqq.; Of the Monotheistic concept of God, 113 sqq.
Ormuzd, 89 sq.
Orosius, 17.
Orphic mysteries, 91.
Osiris, 99.
Over-soul, 65.
P
Paganism, Christianity in conflict with, 16 sqq.; vs. Monotheism, 115 sqq.
Pantheism, 41.
“Pascendi,” Encyclical of Pius X, 79 sq.
Passion, 116 sq.
Paul, St., 15.
Paulsen, 71.
Perkunas, 94.
Persecutions of the early Christians, 16 sq.
Persians, Gods of ancient, 61.
Peschl, O., 52.
Peter, St., 15.
Petronius, On the origin of religion, 61.
Philip de Mornay, 21.
Philo, 96.
Phoenicians, Religion of the, 95 sqq.
Photisms, 80.
Pichler, Vitus, S. J., 23.
Pico della Mirandola, 19.
Pierret, 98.
Pius X, Decree “Lamentabili” and New Syllabus of, 13.
Pleasure, 76.
Plutarch, On the universality of religion, 52 sq.
Polynesians, 108 sq.
Polytheism, St. Augustine and, 17; alleged origin of, 65; vs. Henotheism, 115 sq.; Origin of, 116 sq.
Pontifex Cotta, 53.
Poussin, De la Vallée, 88 sq.
Praeambula fidei, 4.
Pragmatism, 13.
Preuss, K. Th., 68.
Priests, Religion not the invention of, 59 sqq.
Primitives, Religion of the, 61, 103 sqq.
Private revelations, 81 sq.
Protestantism, 20 sqq.
Psychology of religion, 41.
Puluga, 109.
Punishment, Eternal, 36.
Pygmies, Religious development of, 71 sq., 106 sq., 109 sq.
Q
R
Râ, 98.
Radhakrishnan, S., 122.
Rationalism, Catholicism in conflict with, 22 sq.
Raymond of Peñaforte, 18.
Reason, 9, 22, 37, 70, 77 sq., 116.
Reformation, The Protestant, Catholicism in conflict with, 20 sqq.
Reimarus, Samuel, 22.
Religion, Value of, as a moral factor, 10; The notion of, 26 sqq.; Derivation of the term, 26 sqq.; Use and signification of the word, 27 sqq.; Definition of, 28 sqq.; Man’s relation to God the basis of, 28 sq.; Religion in its proper or formal sense, 29; God and religion, 29 sq.; Definition of religion in the theistic sense, 29; Religion and morality, 30 sq.; Religion as a virtue, 30 sq.; As a species of justice, 31 sq.; Necessity of religion, 32 sqq.; Natural religion, Duty of, 32 sqq.; Religion the necessary basis of morality, 34 sqq.; Religion necessary to make life on earth bearable, 36 sqq.; Religion necessary for the existence of society, 37 sqq.; The acts of religion, 40 sqq.; Interior acts, 40 sqq.; External acts, 45 sqq.; Social exercise of religion, 46 sqq.; Religion in the life of nations, 51 sqq.; Universality of religion, as a fact, 51 sqq.; Objections answered, 52 sqq.; As a proof of its objective truth, 56 sqq.; Origin and development of, 58 sqq.; Religion not a human invention, 58 sqq.; Not the result of self-deception, 60 sqq.; On the part of the intellect, 60 sqq.; Fear not the mother of, 61 sqq.; Religion not a figment of the imagination, 64 sqq.; Religion not a product of self-deception on the part of the will, 72 sqq.; Religion not a mere emotion, 77 sqq.; Not a product of animal instinct, 83 sqq.; Evolutionary phases of, 84 sqq.; Monotheism at the beginning of religious development, 85 sqq.; Indo-Germanic religions, 87 sqq.; Semitic religions, 94 sqq.; Babylonians, 94 sqq.; Assyrians, 95; Phœnicians, 95 sqq.; Syrians, 97; Arabs, 97 sq.; Egyptians, 98 sqq.; Chinese, 102 sqq.; Religion of the Primitives, 104 sqq.; Africa, 104 sqq.; Australia, 108 sqq.; America, 110 sqq.; Religion and civilization, 118 sqq.
Religious truths, 41.
Renaissance, The, 19.
Renan, Ernest, On the “Monotheistic instinct” of the Semites and the “Monotheistic character” of the desert, 100 sq.
Renouf, Le Page, 98.
Resurrection of Christ, 15.
Retribution, Eternal, 37 sq.; 37 sq.
Revelation, Supernatural, 5, 9 sq., 11 sq., 22 sq., 32, 121 sq.; Private, 81 sq.
Reverence, 62 sq.
Revival meetings, 80 sqq.
Reward and Punishment, 35 sqq.
Rome, Religion of ancient, 92 sqq.
Rousseau, J. J., as a deist, 22 sq.; On the origin of religion, 60 sq.
S
Sakei, 110.
Sanction of the moral law, 35 sq.
Sati, 102.
Scandinavians, Religion of the ancient, 93.
Schebesta, 107.
Scheeben, M. J., 19.
Schmidt, Wm., S. V. D., 55.
Scientists, Nearly all believers in religion, 62 sqq.; why many lose interest in religious problems, 62 sq.
“Seelenkult,” 65.
Self-deception, Religion not the result of, 60 sqq.
Self-denial, 76.
Selfishness, 116 sq.
Semaine d’Ethnographie Religieuse, 107.
Semang, 110 sq.
Semitic religions, 86 sqq., 95 sqq.
Semler, 22.
Sentiment, 79 sqq.
Senate, Roman, 17.
Seneca, On the universality of religion, 52.
Shamanism, 85.
Shintoism, 103.
Simeon, 14.
Siva, 89.
Slavs, Religion of the ancient, 94.
Social justice, 38.
Society, Religion necessary for the existence of, 37 sqq.
Soul, The spiritual, 70.
Speculation, Religious, 70.
Spencer, Herbert, Agnosticism of, 13; On the origin of religion, 65 sq., 69 sq., 71.
Spinoza, Baruch, 22.
Star-worship, 96.
State, Religion a bulwark of the, 38, 39, 59.
Statius, On the origin of religion, 61.
Stattler, Benedict, S. J., 23.
Strauss, David Fr., On the origin of religion, 61.
Submission to God, 42 sq.
Sudanese, 105.
Suffering, Religion aids the will in, 37 sq.
Suicide, 37.
Summa contra Gentiles of St. Thomas Aquinas, 18 sq.
Supernatural, Desire for the, 11.
Survey of the development of Fundamental Theology, 14 sqq.
Syllabus, The New, of Pius X, 13.
Syrians, Religion of the, 97.
Système de la Nature of Baron Holbach, 22.
T
Tacitus, 74.
Talismans, 67.
Tangaroa, 108.
Taxes, 38.
Terentius Varro, 92.
Tertullian, On Jesus as the Messias, 16; On the use of the word “Religion,” 27; On the primitive Monotheism of the Romans, 93.
“Testem benevolentiae,” 12.
Teutons, Religion of the ancient, 93 sqq.
Theodore of Cyrene, 53 sq.
Thian, 101.
Thomas Aquinas, St., As apologist, 18 sq.; Definition of the word “Religion,” 28; On religion as a virtue, 31; Subsumes religion under justice, 31.
Thor, 93.
Tibet, 55.
Tiele, C. P., 52.
Tierra del Fuego, 69, 111 sqq.
Tius, 86.
Totemism, 85.
Training of children, Religion necessary for the proper, 37 sq.
Θρησκεία, 27 sq.
Tradition, Ecclesiastical, 21.
Tshi, 105.
Tshuku, 105.
Tylor, E. B., 52, 65 sq., 69 sq., 71.
Tyre, 96 sq.
U
Universality of religion, as a fact, 51 sqq.; As a proof of its objective truth, 56 sqq.
Uranos, 90.
V
Varuna, 88.
Vedantic philosophy, 41 sq.
Veda, Gods of the, 61, 86; Hymns of the, 115.
Vesta, 92.
Vierkandt, 68.
Vishnu, 89.
Visions, 80.
W
Waitz, 52.
Watauinewa, 111 sq.
Will (See Free Will), Religious acts of the, 41 sqq., 73 sqq.
Wonder, As an element in the origin of religion, 114.
Worship, Divine, 42 sq., 46; A duty of society, 46 sq.; Origin of primitive, 61 sq.
Y
Yagans, 111 sq.
Yankompon, 104.
Yorubas, 107.
Z
Zambesi, 106.
Zendavesta, 89 sqq.
Zio, 86.
