1. Introduction: Religion from Tolstoy to Camus --2. Tolstoy: My religion -- The death of Ivan Ilyitch -- How much land does a man need -- A reply to the Synod's Edict of excommunication -- 3. Dostoevsky: Rebellion and The grand inquisitor -- 4. Pius IX: The Dogma of the Immaculate Conception -- The encyclical Quanta cura -- The Syllabus of errors -- The Dogma of papal infallibility -- 5. Leo XIII: The encyclical Aeterni patris -- 6. Nietzsche: The Antichrist -- 7. Clifford: The ethics of belief -- 8. James: The will to believe -- 9. Royce: The problem of Job -- 10. Wilde: The doer of good -- The master -- The nightingale and the rose -- A letter on prison life -- 11. Freud: The future of an illusion -- 12. Cohen: The dark side of religion -- 13. Enslin: The New Testament -- 14. Niemöller: The wedding garment -- The salt of the earth -- Gamaliel -- 15. Hay: Europe and the Jews -- 16. Barth and Brunner: A correspondence -- 17. Pius XII: The Dogma of the Assumption -- The encyclical Humani generis -- 18. Maritain: The third way -- 19. Tillich: Symbols of faith -- 20. Wisdom: Gods -- 21. Schweitzer: The conception of the kingdom of God in the transformation of eschatology -- 22. Buber: The way of man according to the teachings of Hasidism -- 23. Camus: Reflections on the guillotine.