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The Religious Environment of Early Christianity1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2011

Ephraim Emerton
Affiliation:
Harvard University

Extract

Opinions as to the nature and origin of Christianity have been profoundly modified during rather recent years by the increased attention that has been given to the circumstances of the society within which its work was to be done. It is fortunate that these inquiries have been undertaken by scholars whose primary interest has not been to defend Christianity, but only to understand the conditions that necessarily determined its forms both of organization and of faith. Into their studies Christianity entered only as one element among many others, and it is this fact that gives to their results their peculiar value for the history of Christianity itself.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © President and Fellows of Harvard College 1910

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References

2 “Of Isis and Osiris,” in Plutarch's Morals. Translation edited by W. W. Goodwin, vol. iv, 1870.

3 The Works of Apuleius: translation in the Bohn Library, 1853.