Androcles and the Lion (Shaw)/Preface to Androcles and the Lion

On the Prospects of Christianity
 * Why not give Christianity a Trial?
 * Why Jesus more than Another?
 * Was Jesus a Coward?
 * Was Jesus a Martyr?
 * The Gospels without Prejudice
 * The Gospels now unintelligible to Novices
 * Worldliness of the Majority
 * Religion of the Minority. Salvationism
 * The Difference between Atonement and Punishment
 * Salvation at first a Class Privilege; and the Remedy
 * Retrospective Atonement; and the Expectation of the Redeemer
 * Completion of the Scheme by Luther and Calvin
 * John Barleycorn
 * Looking for the End of the World
 * The Honor of Divine Parentage

Matthew
 * The Annunciation, the Massacre, the Flight
 * John the Baptist
 * Jesus joins the Baptists
 * The Savage John and the Civilized Jesus
 * Jesus not a Proselytist
 * The Teachings of Jesus
 * The Miracles
 * Matthew imputes Bigotry to Jesus
 * The Great Change
 * Jerusalem and the Mystical Sacrifice
 * Not this Man but Barabbas
 * The Resurrection
 * Date of Matthew's Narrative
 * Class Type of Matthew's Jesus

Mark
 * The Women Disciples and the Ascension

Luke
 * Luke the Literary Artist
 * The Charm of Luke's Narrative
 * The Touch of Parisian Romance
 * Waiting for the Messiah

John
 * A New Story and a New Character
 * John the Immortal Eye Witness
 * The Peculiar Theology of Jesus
 * John agreed as to the Trial and Crucifixion

Christianity
 * Credibility of the Gospels
 * Fashions of Belief
 * Credibility and Truth
 * Christian Iconolatry and the Peril of the Iconoclast
 * The Alternative to Barabbas
 * The Reduction to Modern Practice of Christianity
 * Modern Communism
 * Redistribution
 * Shall He Who Makes, Own?
 * Labor Time
 * The Dream of Distribution According to Merit
 * Vital Distribution
 * Equal Distribution
 * The Captain and the Cabin Boy
 * The Political and Biological Objections to Inequality
 * Jesus as Economist
 * Jesus as Biologist
 * Money the Midwife of Scientific Communism
 * Judge Not
 * Limits to Free Will
 * Jesus on Marriage and the Family
 * Why Jesus did not Marry
 * Inconsistency of the Sex Instinct
 * For Better for Worse
 * The Case for Marriage
 * Celibacy no Remedy
 * After the Crucifixion
 * The Vindictive Miracles and the Stoning of Stephen
 * Paul
 * Confusion of Christendom
 * Secret of Paul's Success
 * Paul's Qualities
 * Acts of the Apostles
 * The Controversies on Baptism and Transubstantiation
 * The Alternative Christs
 * Credulity no Criterion
 * Belief in Personal Immortality no Criterion
 * The Secular View
 * The Higher Criticism
 * The Perils of Salvationism
 * The Importance of Hell in the Salvation Scheme
 * The Right to refuse Atonement
 * The Teaching of Christianity
 * Christianity and the Empire