Theological Idea of Deity:

CONTRASTING THE VIEWS ENTERTAINED OF A
SUPREME BEING BY THE ANCIENT GRECIAN
SAGES, WITH THOSE OF MOSES AND
THE HEBREW WRITERS

AND BLENDING ANCIENT JUDAISM, PAGANISM,
AND CHRISTIANITY INTO A COMMON ORIGINAL.

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BY M. B. CRAVEN.

- Canst thou by searching find out God? Job 11 : 7. —

PHILADELPHIA:
BARCLAY & CO.,

610 ARCH STREET.

1871.

PUBLIC LIBRARY
161955

ASTOR, LENOX AND
TILDEN FOUNDATIONS.
1899.

Entered according to ar act of Congress, in the year 1870, by

M. B. CRAVEN,

In the office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D. C.

CONTENTS:

CHAPTER I.

The Hebrew conception of a Divine Being contrasted with that

of the Grecian Sages, with Quotations from and Criticisms

on various Theologians, ancient and modern.

CHAPTER II.

1

Same subject continued, in connection with the doctrine of Im-

mortality being embraced by Pagan nations before it was

by the Jews.

CHAPTER III.

Changeability and inconsistency of the Hebrew idea of God-

Contradictory statements of different Biblical writers in

regard to seeing God, etc.

CHAPTER IV.

Angelic communications with the Hebrews-Jewish idea of
the Spirit of the Lord-View of Diety in connection with
the history of Jephthah, etc.

CHAPTER V.

The Hindoo faculty-Christian Missions-Images not supposed

by Pagans to be deities-Christian worship contrasted

with Paganism-Various opinions of God-The worship

of a Supreme Being prevalent among all the Polytheistic

nations of antiquity, etc.

CHAPTER VI.

The Indian belief in God more spiritual than the Hebrew—

Hebrew custom of pronouncing curses-Irrelevant ideas

of Deity entertained by the Prophets-Platonic philoso-

phy contrasted with Pauline Christianity and Judaism—

Trinity, of Pagan origin, etc.