Mystery Religions and Christianity - A Study in the Relgious Background of Early Christianity

Klappentext Classic study explores the Eleusinian mysteries of ancient Greece; Asiatic cults of Cybele, the Magna Mater, and Attis; Dionysian groups; Orphics; Egyptian devotees of Isis and Osiris; Mithraism; and others. Inhaltsverzeichnis FOREWORDCHAPTER I. ORIENTATION: THE HISTORICAL CRISES OF THE GRAECO­ ROMAN WORLD IN THEIR BEARING UPON THE MYSTERY-RELIGIONS AND CHRISTIANITY CHAPTER II. WHAT IS A MYSTERY-RELIGION? CHAPTER III. THE THREE STAGES OF A MYSTERY CHAPTER IV. THE APPEAL OF THE MYSTERY-RELIGIONS CHAPTER V. THE APPEAL OF THE MYSTERY-RELIGIONS CHAPTER VI. THE DEFECTS OF THE MYSTERIES AND THEIR ULTIMATE FAILURE CHAPTER VII. THE VICTORY OF CHRISTIANITY BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEXAuthors Subjects

Product details

• Authors: S. Angus, Samuel Angus
• Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.03.2003
• EAN: 9780486231242
• ISBN: 978-0-486-23124-2
• No. of pages: 359
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity