Hellenistic Mystery-Religions = Die hellenistischen Mysterienreligionen (1978 Reitzenstein / Steely), book (English ed.)

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Hellenistic Mystery-Religions: Their Basic Ideas and Significance (1978) is the English edition of Die hellenistischen Mysterienreligionen, 3rd ed. (Hellenistic Mystery-Religions / 1927 Reitzenstein), book. Translated from the German by John E. Steely.

Abstract

Editions and translations

Published in Pittsburgh, PA: Pickwick Press, 1978.

Table of 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.

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