Bernard Bolzano: Band I,7,1: Lehrbuch der Religionswissenschaft. Zweiter Teil. §§ 1-54

Content:

• Zweiter Haupttheil. Von den Wundern, die zur Bestätigung des katholischen Christentums dienen
• Nötige Vorausschickungen §§ 1-3
• Erstes Hauptstück. Äußerer Beweis für die sittliche Zuträglichkeit des katholischen Lehrbegriffes §§ 4-12
• Zweites Hauptstück. Über die Natur der historischen Erkenntnis, besonders in Hinsicht auf Wunder §§ 13-30
• Drittes Hauptstück. Echtheit, Unverfälschtheit und Glaubwürdigkeit der Bücher des Neuen Bundes §§ 31-54

The lectures which Bernard Bolzano held from 1805 up to his dismissal in January of 1820 as a professor for Catholic religious education at the University of Prague in the context of the philosophical studies were published anonymously in 1834 in a four-volume edition with which Bolzano was very unhappy. As part of the collected works of Bolzano there is now for the first time a new critical edition of this work which includes the corrections and variants of a master copy authorized by Bolzano. The textbook is divided into three parts: In the first part Bolzano explains the concept of religion and other terms which are essential for his philosophy of religion and presents the most important theories of natural religion and rational religion, divided into »natural dogmatics« and »natural morality.« In the second part, Bolzano studies the miracles which serve as a confirmation of Catholic Christianity. In the third part, he describes the individual individual articles of faith of »Old Catholic dogmatics« and those of »Old Catholic morality.«