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Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 666 pages
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Download or read book Essays on Christianity, Paganism, and Superstition written by Thomas De Quincey and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas De Quincey
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333449858
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (498 download)
Download or read book Essays on Christianity, Paganism, and Superstition (Classic Reprint) written by Thomas De Quincey and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-02 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Essays on Christianity, Paganism, and Superstition The present edition is a reissue of the Works of Thomas De Quincey. The series is based upon the American Edition of De Quincey's Works, pub lished originally in twenty-two volumes. After that edition was issued, a complete English edition was published in Edinburgh and was edited and revised in part by the author. This edition con tained changes and additions, and the opportunity has been taken, in reissuing the American edition, to incorporate the new material which appeared in the English edition. At the same time, the arrangement of the several productions is more systematic and orderly than was possible when the collection was first made, at different intervals, under difficulties which render the work of the first editor especially praiseworthy. In the final volume, an introduction to the series sets forth the plan carried out in this new arrangement, and that volume also contains a very full index to the entire series. Throughout the series, the notes of the editor are distinguished from those of the author. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Thomas De Quincey
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 645 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (123 download)
Download or read book Essays on Christianity, Paganism, and Superstition written by Thomas De Quincey and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ernest Gottlieb Sihler
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780260408655
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (86 download)
Download or read book From Augustus to Augustine written by Ernest Gottlieb Sihler and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from From Augustus to Augustine: Essays Studies Dealing With the Contact and Conflict of Classic Paganism and Christianity I must not omit here that superb collection of mono graphs: A Dictionary of Christian Biography, etc., etc., edited by Smith and Wace, London, four volumes, 1877 - 1887. All the contributors are by now dead, the last being Viscount Bryce, with whom I had the honour to correspond in 1911 and in 1921. The most eminent name, I believe, was that of Joseph Barber Lightfoot. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : James Anson Farrer
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Paganism and Christianity written by James Anson Farrer and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paganism and Christianity by James Anson Farrer, first published in 1891, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
Author : J. A. Farrer
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ISBN 13 : 9781440054877
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (548 download)
Download or read book Paganism and Christianity (Classic Reprint) written by J. A. Farrer and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-10 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Paganism and Christianity If any great classical writers of the ancient world, like Seneca or Cicero, could come to life again, nothing surely would astonish them more than the descriptions they might read in our books of the state of the world when they left it, of its moral depravity, and the absence of the religious idea. One would gladly hear what they would say to it all; but, falling that, it only remains to enter as much as possible into their tone of thought, and to present the case between Christianity and Paganism as they might do if they could now speak for themselves, and had at their command eighteen centuries of Church history and all writings of the Fathers and theologians. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Ramsay MacMullen
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300080773
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (87 download)
Download or read book Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries written by Ramsay MacMullen and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The slaughter of animals for religious feasts, the tinkling of bells to ward off evil during holy rites, the custom of dancing in religious services--these and many other pagan practices persisted in the Christian church for hundreds of years after Constantine proclaimed Christianity the one official religion of Rome. In this book, Ramsay MacMullen investigates the transition from paganism to Christianity between the fourth and eighth centuries. He reassesses the triumph of Christianity, contending that it was neither tidy nor quick, and he shows that the two religious systems were both vital during an interactive period that lasted far longer than historians have previously believed. MacMullen explores the influences of paganism and Christianity upon each other. In a rich discussion of the different strengths of the two systems, he demonstrates that pagan beliefs were not eclipsed or displaced by Christianity but persisted or were transformed. The victory of the Christian church, he explains, was one not of obliteration but of widening embrace and assimilation. This fascinating book also includes new material on the Christian persecution of pagans over the centuries through methods that ranged from fines to crucifixion; the mixture of motives in conversion; the stubbornness of pagan resistance; the difficulty of satisfying the demands and expectations of new converts; and the degree of assimilation of Christianity to paganism.
Author : Maude Aline Huttmann
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333350925
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (59 download)
Download or read book The Establishment of Christianity and the Proscription of Paganism (Classic Reprint) written by Maude Aline Huttmann and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-24 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Establishment of Christianity and the Proscription of Paganism Since the Object in dealing with these particular prob lems and Constantine's legislation for the Christian Church was merely to aid in the comprehension of his general policy, it has seemed advisable to omit discussion of the Emperor's laws against heterodox Christianity. The ques tion of heresy under the Christian emperors is so intricate as to demand separate treatment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Ernest Gottlieb Sihler
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781379030140
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)
Download or read book From Augustus to Augustine: Essays & Studies Dealing with the Contact and Conflict of Classic Paganism and Christianity written by Ernest Gottlieb Sihler and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2018-03-02 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Ernest Gottlieb Sihler
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781341885747
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (857 download)
Download or read book From Augustus to Augustine written by Ernest Gottlieb Sihler and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-09-07 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Abram Herbert Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781330472750
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (727 download)
Download or read book Paganism Surviving in Christianity (Classic Reprint) written by Abram Herbert Lewis and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-28 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Paganism Surviving in Christianity He who judges the first century by the nineteenth will fall into countless errors. He who thinks that the Christianity of the fourth century was identical with that of the New-Testament period, will go widely astray. He who does not look carefully into the history of religions before the time of Christ, and into the pagan influences which surrounded infant Christianity, cannot understand its subsequent history. He who cannot rise above denominational limitations and credal restrictions cannot become a successful student of early Church history, nor of present tendencies, nor of future developments. History is a series of results, not a medley of happenings. It is the story of the struggle between right and wrong; the record of God's dealing with men. The "historic argument" is invaluable, because history preserves God's verdicts concerning human choices and actions. Events and epochs, transitions and culminations, are the organized causes and effects which create the never-ceasing movement, and the organic unity called history. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : J. M. Robertson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780260739896
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (398 download)
Download or read book Pagan Christs written by J. M. Robertson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Pagan Christs: Studies in Comparative Hierology Since the first issue of this work in 1903, but especially within the past few years, its main positions have been brought into extensive discussion by other writers, notably in Germany, where the Christus mythe of Professor Arthur Drews has been the theme of many plat form debates. The hypothesis oi the pre-christian J csus-god, first indicated in Christianity and Mythology, and further propounded in the first edition of this book, has received highly important and independent development at the hands of Professor W. Benjamin Smith in his Der Vorchristliche Jesus and in the later expo sitiou of Professor Drews. For one whose tasks include other busy fields, it is hardly possible to give this the constant attention it deserves; but the present edition has been as fully revised as might be; and some fresh elucidatory material has been embodied, without, however, any pretence of including the results Of the other writers named. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Christopher P. Jones
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674369513
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (743 download)
Download or read book Between Pagan and Christian written by Christopher P. Jones and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who and what was pagan depended on the outlook of the observer, as Christopher Jones shows in this fresh and penetrating analysis. Treating paganism as a historical construct rather than a fixed entity, Between Christian and Pagan uncovers the fluid ideas, rituals, and beliefs that Christians and pagans shared in Late Antiquity.
Author : Marianne Saghy
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 9633862558
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (338 download)
Download or read book Pagans and Christians in the Late Roman Empire written by Marianne Saghy and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do the terms ?pagan? and ?Christian,? ?transition from paganism to Christianity? still hold as explanatory devices to apply to the political, religious and cultural transformation experienced Empire-wise? Revisiting ?pagans? and ?Christians? in Late Antiquity has been a fertile site of scholarship in recent years: the paradigm shift in the interpretation of the relations between ?pagans? and ?Christians? replaced the old ?conflict model? with a subtler, complex approach and triggered the upsurge of new explanatory models such as multiculturalism, cohabitation, cooperation, identity, or group cohesion. This collection of essays, inscribes itself into the revisionist discussion of pagan-Christian relations over a broad territory and time-span, the Roman Empire from the fourth to the eighth century. A set of papers argues that if ?paganism? had never been fully extirpated or denied by the multiethnic educated elite that managed the Roman Empire, ?Christianity? came to be presented by the same elite as providing a way for a wider group of people to combine true philosophy and right religion. The speed with which this happened is just as remarkable as the long persistence of paganism after the sea-change of the fourth century that made Christianity the official religion of the State. For a long time afterwards, ?pagans? and ?Christians? lived ?in between? polytheistic and monotheist traditions and disputed Classical and non-Classical legacies. ΓΏ
Author : Ramsay MacMullen
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 9781451407853
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Paganism and Christianity, 100-425 C.E. written by Ramsay MacMullen and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of nearly 175 documents?from saints, emperors, philosophers, satirists, inscriptions, graffiti, and other interesting types?that sheds light on the complex fabric of religious belief as it changed from a variety of non-Judeo-Christian movements to Christian in late antiquity. These texts illuminate and bring to life the bizarre and the banal of the social world of the Roman Empire, the world in which Christianity ultimately gained preeminence. This treasury of texts leads the reader through the matrix of beliefs among which Christianity grew. It includes both Christian and non-Christian sources, avoiding a common but obscuring division between the two. The material is presented as one single flow that satisfies natural curiosity and whets the reader's appetite for more. Brief explanatory introductions to the documents are included.
Author : John Ireland
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780365515838
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (158 download)
Download or read book Paganism and Christianty Compared, in a Course of Letures (Classic Reprint) written by John Ireland and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-24 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Paganism and Christianty Compared, in a Course of Letures The preparation of the following course of Lectures devolved on me by an accident, with which it is not necessary to trouble the Reader. Whether the performance be entitled to any degree of public esteem, must be left to the determination of others. For the motives which suggested it, I can decidedly answer. I was desirous of being useful to the Institution which I was called to serve; of shewing a mark of attachment to the Church to which I have the honour to belong; and of presenting to the Young Men, whom it became my province to instruct, something which might tend to the formation of the christian scholar. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Maijastina Kahlos
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317154363
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Debate and Dialogue written by Maijastina Kahlos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the construction of Christian identity in fourth and fifth centuries through inventing, fabricating and sharpening binary oppositions. Such oppositions, for example Christians - pagans; truth - falsehood; the one true god - the multitude of demons; the right religion - superstition, served to create and reinforce the Christian self-identity. The author examines how the Christian argumentation against pagans was intertwined with self-perception and self-affirmation. Discussing the relations and interaction between pagan and Christian cultures, this book aims at widening historical understanding of the cultural conflicts and the otherness in world history, thus contributing to the ongoing discussion about the historical and conceptual basis of cultural tolerance and intolerance. This book offers a valuable contribution to contemporary scholarly debate about Late Antique religious history and the relationship between Christianity and other religions.
