The book is a criticism of the very idea of goodness, widely current among Christians on the ground that it is not distinctly Christian at all. It follows too closely the Old Testament and the best Pagan moralists, thereby blurring a deep distinction between the dispensation of law and the dispensation of grace, emphasising duty with his rigours instead of love with its freedoms.

I. Is our ideal of goodness christian?
II. The goodness of goodness;
III. The badness of goodness;
IV. Beyond goodness and badness;
V. The generosity of love;
VI. The positivity of love;
VII. The childlikeness of love;
VIII. The sternness of love;
IX. The objectivity of love;
X. The moral benefits of love;
XI. The religion of love.