Primitive Christianity in Its Contemporary Setting = Das Urchristentum im Rahmen der antiken Religionen (1956 Bultmann / Fuller), book (English ed.)

Primitive Christianity in Its Contemporary Setting (1956) is the English edition of Das Urchristentum im Rahmen der antiken Religionen (1949 Bultmann), book. Translated from the German by Reginald H. Fuller

Editions

Published in London: Thames and Hudson; and New York, NY: Meridian, 1956.

Table of contents

The Old Testament heritage. God and the world ; God and the nation ; God and man -- Judaism. Synagogue and law ; The hope of Israel ; Hellenistic Judaism -- The Greek heritage. The Greek city state ; Science and the philosophy of life -- Hellenism. The Stoic ideal of the wise man ; Star worship, fatalism and astrology ; The mystery religions ; Gnosticism -- Primitive Christianity. Primitive Christianity as a syncretistic phenomenon ; Man and his relation to time ; The situation of man in the world ; Redemption.