Paganism Surviving in Christianity (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. A Historical Critique of Pagan Customs, Sacred Days, and Roman Festival Influences in Church PracticeBy Abram Herbert Lewis
Length9h 42m
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Paganism Surviving in Christianity is a polemical yet learned historical study tracing the persistence of pre-Christian customs within the institutions, festivals, symbols, and devotional habits of the church. Lewis examines such subjects as sacred days, ritual observances, and popular religious practices, arguing that Christianity's accommodation to Greco-Roman culture altered its primitive simplicity. Written in the moral earnestness of nineteenth-century Protestant historiography, the book combines antiquarian citation with reformist critique, standing within a broader tradition of dissenting scholarship suspicious of ecclesiastical tradition. Abram Herbert Lewis, a prominent Seventh Day Baptist minister, educator, and historian, brought to this work the concerns of a churchman deeply invested in questions of Sabbath observance, religious purity, and the authority of Scripture over inherited custom. His denominational background, with its emphasis on the seventh-day Sabbath and resistance to unexamined ecclesiastical practice, helps explain both the focus and urgency of his argument. This volume is recommended to readers interested in church history, Protestant reform thought, and the contested boundaries between culture and doctrine. Even where modern scholarship may qualify Lewis's conclusions, his work remains a valuable document of critical religious inquiry and a provocative invitation to reconsider the historical formation of Christian practice.
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GenreSpirituality and Religion
Length9 hrs 42 mins
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Publish dateDec 12, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
43Tertullian on the Sabbath.
2PREFACE.
44CHAPTER IX. STATE RELIGION A PAGAN INSTITUTION.
3CHAPTER I. REMAINS OF PAGANISM IN CHRISTIANITY.
45Christ’s Attitude Toward the State.
4CHAPTER II. PAGAN METHODS OF INTERPRETING THE SCRIPTURES.
46Roman Conception of Religion.
5Gnosticism.
47Religious Syncretism.
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6Biblical Exegesis.
48CHAPTER X. THE CONTROL OF CHRISTIANITY BY THE STATE UNDER CONSTANTINE AND HIS SUCCESSORS.
7The Fathers as Allegorists.
49Character of Constantine.
8This Method Opposed by Some.
50CHAPTER XI. CONSTANTINE’S LEGISLATION CONCERNING THE PAGAN SUNDAY.
9Further Examples.
51Edict Concerning Aruspices.
10CHAPTER III. ASIATIC PAGAN WATER-WORSHIP.
52CHAPTER XII. OTHER FORMS OF PAGAN RESIDUUM IN CHRISTIANITY.
11Corrupting Influence of Pagan Water-Worship.
53A Low Standard of Christian Life.
12Purity Sought through Baptism.
54Faith in “Relics.”
13Mithraic and Gnostic Baptism.
55The Cross, its Sign, and other Charms.
14Baptism of Blood.
56The Sign of the Cross in Baptism.
15Baptism at Death, and for the Dead.
57Baptism and “Holy Water” as “Charms.”
16Baptism and Serpent-Worship.
58Miracles through Baptism.
17The Sacred Nile.
59Delayed Baptism.
18Water-Worship in India.
60Orientation at Baptism.
19Modern Buddhistic Baptism.
61CHAPTER XIII. SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED.
20Baptism among the Hindus
62Lights in Worship.
21CHAPTER IV. WATER-WORSHIP IN NORTHERN EUROPE AND IN MEXICO.
63“Orientation.”
22Water Securing Immunity from Disease.
64Easter Fires.
23Water-Worship in Mexico.
65Midsummer Fires.
24CHAPTER V. GREEK WATER-WORSHIP.
66Beltane or Baal Fires.
25Influence of the “Greek Mysteries.”
67Penance.
26Anointing and Baptism.
68Mariolatry.
27Use of Spittle in Baptism.
69The Mass.
28CHAPTER VI. PAGAN WATER-WORSHIP TRANSFERRED TO CHRISTIANITY.
70Purgatory and Prayers for the Dead.
29Baptism in the Early Church.
71Saint Peter’s Keys.
30Holy Water.
72Representative Festivals.
31Roman Catholics Defend this Use.
73Christmas.
32Preparing Holy Water.
74Easter.
33Sun-Worship and Water-Worship.
75Lent.
34Summary.
76CHAPTER XIV. FIVE CONCLUSIONS.
35CHAPTER VII. PAGAN SUN-WORSHIP.
77(1) Reinstatement of the Bible.
36The Simultaneous Development of Anti-Sabbathism and of Sunday Observance.
78(2) Biblical Interpretation; Higher Criticism.
37Antinomianism and Anti-Sabbathism Unscriptural.
79(3) Concerning Baptism.
38CHAPTER VIII. SUNDAY OBSERVANCE UNKNOWN TO CHRISTIANITY BEFORE THE MIDDLE OF THE SECOND CENTURY.
80(4) Sabbathism.
39Christ’s Resurrection and Sunday.
81(5) Christianity and the State.
40The Sabbath in the New Testament.
82Last Words.
41Pagan Reasons for Observing Sunday.
83INDEX.
42Clement on the Sabbath Law.
84Memorable Quotes
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