Pagan Regeneration
A Study of Mystery Initiations in the Graeco-Roman World
Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Inspiration & Meditation, Mysticism, Judaism, New Age
| Author: | Harold Willoughby | ISBN: | 1230000263372 |
| Publisher: | Serapis | Publication: | August 25, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Harold Willoughby |
| ISBN: | 1230000263372 |
| Publisher: | Serapis |
| Publication: | August 25, 2014 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
An analytical investigation of the social milieu in which the mystery cults operated brought to light the fundamental character of the interests and needs met by mystery initiation. On the one hand this made intelligible the undoubted popularity of the mystery cults themselves; on the other hand it served to suggest why it was the early Christian propagandists, in order to win gentile adherents to their cult, came to place such insistent emphasis on the experience of individual regeneration.
An analytical investigation of the social milieu in which the mystery cults operated brought to light the fundamental character of the interests and needs met by mystery initiation. On the one hand this made intelligible the undoubted popularity of the mystery cults themselves; on the other hand it served to suggest why it was the early Christian propagandists, in order to win gentile adherents to their cult, came to place such insistent emphasis on the experience of individual regeneration.
