 Two years after the publication of the Luther book Feuerbach published another short book entitled The Essence of Religion, the core ideas in which are further developed in the Lectures, where Feuerbach explains that, because Christians themselves do not worship such things as the sun and the moon, but instead worship “will, intelligence, consciousness as divine beings and powers” (VWR 27/20), he himself had “disregarded nature” in his account of Christianity (VWR, 26/19). This had given rise to certain unspecified but “preposterous” misunderstandings, which he sought to correct by augmenting the slogan encapsulating his doctrine from “theology is anthropology” to “theology is anthropology ‘and physiology’” (VWR 28/21). This modification reflects a new emphasis in Feuerbach’s later writings on the ontological dependence of human consciousness upon the physical human organism, which itself exists only in relation to the natural order of which it is a part—a relation mediated, or, to be more precise, revealed, by the senses.