Foreword -- Prologue -- Chapter One -- The Triumph of Christianity8 -- Chapter Two -- Beowulf(521-800?)41 -- Chapter Three -- Moses Maimonides (1135-1204)93 -- Chapter Four -- Thomas Aquinas (1224-1274)110 -- Chapter Five -- Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)136 -- Chapter Six -- Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375)305 -- Chapter Seven -- Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400)370 -- Chapter Eight -- Thomas More (1478-1535)403 -- Chapter Nine -- Martin Luther (1483-1548)468 -- Chapter Ten -- Michel Eÿquem de Montaigne (1533-1592)572 -- Chapter Eleven -- Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)637 -- Chapter Twelve -- Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)686 -- Chapter Thirteen -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)707 -- Chapter Fourteen -- Thomas Paine (1737-1809)728 -- Chapter Fifteen -- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)749 -- Chapter Sixteen -- Charles Darwin (1809-1882)827 -- Chapter Seventeen -- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)892 -- Chapter Eighteen -- The Modern Greek Characterand Islam931 -- Chapter Nineteen -- A Memo to Protestant983 -- Chapter Twenty -- Public Funds andChurch-Sponsored Schools996 -- Chapter Twenty-One -- Reason versus Revelation, Reconsidered1022 -- Chapter Twenty-Two -- The Legislation of Morality and the Law of Abortion1048 -- Chapter Twenty-Three -- Animal Sacrifices and theSacrifice of Morality1074 -- Chapter Twenty-Four -- On Physician-Assisted Suicide1095 -- Chapter Twenty-Five -- Mortality and Happiness1134 -- Chapter Twenty-Six -- The Case for Israel1151 -- Epilogue -- Appendix A -- European Jews, Their "Christian" Neighbors, and the Holocaust (2000)* -- Appendix B -- On the Right to Live as a Beggar:Reflections by Moonlight (2001-2002)* -- Appendix C -- On Knowing Oneself:Projections and Introspection (2003)* -- Appendix D -- On Facts and Theories:Lessons for Law Studentsfrom Ptolemy's Astronomy (2004)* -- Appendix E -- Christmas Stories (2004)* -- Appendix F.

Still Another Look at Taoism (2005)* -- Appendix G -- On the Apparent Knowabilityof the Good (2005)* -- Appendix H -- On Properly Knowing Oneself (2006)* -- Appendix I -- Come, All Ye Faithful:St. John Chrysostom and theMeaning of Christmas (2006)* -- Appendix J -- An Academic Autobiography,by Way of Saint Thomas andSaint Ignatius (2008)* -- Appendix K -- Struggles for the Soulof Christendom (2008)* -- Appendix L -- On Truly KnowingWhat One Is Trying to Do:The Mystery of Evil (2008)* -- Appendix M -- Glimpses of Leo Strauss, Jacob Klein,and St. John's College (2009)* -- Notes -- Index.