The Conversion of The Roman Empire. The Boyle Lectures for the year 1864.

Merivale, Charles:

Published by New York: D. Appleton and Company., 1865

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267 p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Einband berieben und bestoßen, insgesamt altersbedingt vergilbt, sonst guter Zustand / Binding rubbed and bumped, overall age yellowed, otherwise good condition. - PREFACE. The conversion of the Roman Empire to Christianity is a very comprehensive subject of inquiry. It is a subject not for a dissertation but for a history, for it involves a progressive change extending over three or more centuries, and is marked by a series not only of moral and intellectual, but of political revolutions. It embraces a multitude of events, and presents to us a long gallery of individual characters. It points backward to the origin and progress of thought and feeling on religious questions ; and forward almost to the farthest expansion that they have hitherto attained. It is in itself the history of religion brought into one focus, for there is little probably in the later course of human speculation on the most interesting of all questions, of which the germ and often the full development may not be traced in the controversies of primitive Christianity with Paganism. In undertaking to give a sketch of this subject within the limits of eight lectures delivered from a pulpit to a mixed and fluctuating congregation, I have not supposed that I could do more than indicate a few of its most salient points, and suggest topics of reflection and possibly of inquiry that might lead some of my hearers or readers to a further and more fruitful consideration of it. With this view, in printing these Lectures according to the terms of the foundation on which they were delivered, I have appended to them some explanatory and illustrative notes which seemed to be required, for the better understanding of my remarks; but still the volume which I lay before the reader does not pretend to be a formal disquisition on the subject still less, I need hardly say, to be a history of the great transformation of opinion of which it treats. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550. Seller Inventory # 1195664

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Title: The Conversion of The Roman Empire. The ...

Publisher: New York: D. Appleton and Company.

Publication Date: 1865

Binding: Leinen / Cloth.

Condition: Gut