Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. With an Essay on Baal Worship, on the Assyrian Sacred "Grove," and Other Allied SymbolsBy Thomas Inman, M.R.C.S.E. John Newton
Length4h
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Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism examines the persistence, transformation, and reinterpretation of sacred signs across religious traditions. Combining antiquarian inquiry, comparative religion, iconographic analysis, and polemical Victorian prose, the volume situates Christian emblems within a broader history of pagan visual culture. Its discussions of crosses, solar imagery, fertility symbols, and ritual objects underscore the complex traffic between devotion, art, myth, and institutional belief. Thomas Inman, a physician and learned antiquarian, brings to the subject the nineteenth-century fascination with origins, survivals, and the hidden meanings of religious forms; John Newton's contributions extend the work's visual and interpretive reach. Together, they participate in a wider Victorian movement of comparative mythology and biblical criticism, when scholars and freethinkers increasingly examined Christianity alongside classical, Near Eastern, and folk traditions. Their combined perspectives illuminate how symbols migrate across cultures and acquire new theological force. This volume is recommended to readers interested in religious studies, art history, Victorian intellectual culture, and the genealogy of sacred imagery. It offers a provocative opportunity to consider how belief is shaped not only by doctrine but by inherited visual languages. Read as historical artifact and symbolic inquiry, it invites sustained reflection on continuity, adaptation, and controversy in the making of religious meaning.
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GenreSpirituality and Religion, Literary Classics
Length4 hrs
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Publish dateNov 20, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism (Annotated)
2INTRODUCTION.
3PAGAN AND CHRISTIAN SYMBOLISM.
4PLATE II.
5APPENDIX: THE ASSYRIAN "GROVE" AND OTHER EMBLEMS
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6By John Newton, M.R.C.S.
7Memorable Quotes
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