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Hellenistic mystery-religions : their basic ideas and significance
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Hellenistic mystery-religions : their basic ideas and significance

Author: Richard Reitzenstein
Publisher: Pittsburgh : Pickwick Press, 1978.
Series: Pittsburgh theological monograph series, 15
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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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