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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard Reitzenstein |
| ISBN: | 0915138204 9780915138203 |
| OCLC Number: | 3293163 |
| Notes: | Includes indexes. |
| Description: | xii, 572 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Contents: | Lecture -- Appendices and elucidation -- Approach to the material, and its definition -- Oriental and Hellenistic cult -- Mystai, divine warriors, and divine captives -- The religious impact of Persian rule -- The report of Apuleius -- The Hellenistic concept of pistis -- Philosopher and prophet -- Mystery and primitive religion -- The internalizing of the mysteries -- Love-union with God -- Election, call, justification, glorification -- Designations for transformation -- Virtues and vices as members -- The new Manichaean fragments -- The concepts of Gnosis and Ppneuma -- Paul as a pneumatic -- The technical language of the gnostics -- The dual awareness in romanticism -- The meaning of the self -- On the developmental history of Paul. |
| Series Title: | Pittsburgh theological monograph series, 15 |
| Other Titles: | Hellenistischen Mysterienreligionen. |
| Responsibility: | by Richard Reitzenstein ; translated by John E. Steely. |
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