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PART I.—FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES.
CONVERSATION I.
Definition of terms and appellation—Generic meaning of Socialism Who are Socialists, and who Anti-Socialists—Different kinds of Socialists—Unjust to lump all together—Why retain these oft misunderstood terms, Socialism and Socialist—What the terms Christian and Practical denote, as designating our kind of Socialism—Essential principles of the Christian Religion the basis of our Socialism—What Religion is in general, and what the Christian Religion is in particular—Whence the Christian Religion is to be learned, viz., the Scriptures—Why Christ left no elaborate Writings, and why we have such brief records the Christian Religion a universal, perfect and immortal one. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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CONVERSATION II.
Who or what is Christ?—Origin and definition of the name Christ—Old Testament prophecies concerning Christ—Jesus of Nazareth applied these and similar predictions to himself—The proofs of it—Was Jesus Christ divine or human?—The divine and human natures were both manifested in him—the exterior Christ, and the interior Christ—The Christ-form of divine manifestations—Explanations called for—The numberless earths and heavens—The Infinitarium of universes—God exclusively local no where—His manifestations of himself by means of his Christ-hood; also his subordinate and less personal manifestations through the Holy Ghost—Precise explanations of meaning and idea on all these points. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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CONVERSATION III.
Inquirer recapitulates the principal positions and ideas which he understands—Expositor to have set forth in the preceding Conversation, and Expositor pronounces the statement of them to be correct—Is there any difference in essence between the interior and exterior Christ?—Between the Infinite Father-Spirit, the Christ-Spirit and the Holy Ghost?—Explanatory replications—Inquirer calls for passages of Scripture which . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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