Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 348 pages
- Published by: Kessinger Publishing, LLC March 31, 2003
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0766141853
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0766141858
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Book Dimensions:
11.2 x 8.4 x 0.7 inches
- Weighs: 1.8 pounds
Product Description
1925. A series of ten lectures delivered on behalf of the Liverpool Board of Biblical Studies. The author's aim in this collection is to paint a picture of the general character of pagan society and pagan thought during the early centuries of the Christian era. Includes the following lectures: introductory; administration, municipalities, guilds; communications; society and social ethics; eastern and western elements in Greco-Roman civilization; decline of rationalism; union with God and the immortality of the soul; mystery religions; Mithraism; similarity of Christian and pagan ritual.