Chapter III

	The Psychology of Religion: its precursors and founders	89
I.	The Psychology of Religious Experience: points emphasized in the discussion	92
	1. The normality of religion	92
	2. The power of religion in the individual and in society	96
	3. The need of salvation	100
	4. The way of salvation	102
II.	The Metaphysical Implicates of Religious Experience	105
	1. The Physical Explanation: religion the result of bodily conditions; religion and sex	106
	2. The Psychological Explanation: religion and the subconscious	111
	3. The Social Explanation: religion and society	114
	4. The Theistic Inference	119
	The Pragmatic Argument for Theism	119
	The Mystical Argument: its strength and its weakness	120
	The Evidence of Christian Experience	122