Written over five years and reprinted without revision so the growth of her thought would show, these essays follow Besant’s step-by-step break with Christianity. She takes on the deity of Jesus, the differences between the Fourth Gospel and the Synoptics, the Atonement, eternal punishment, inspiration, and finally the arguments for the existence of God itself.
A key text of Victorian secularism by the woman who later became a leading Theosophist and Indian nationalist. Download the free EPUB.