Hellenism and Christianity (1921 Bevan), book

Hellenism and Christianity (1921) is a book by Edwyn R. Bevan.

Abstract

The essays composing this book were written at different times for different occasions...Put together in a single volume, they...present a mental unity-a single body of interests, observations, and ideas, which is one individual's reaction to the spectacle of the universe...[T]he first essay...show[s] the significance of rationalist culture in its relation to Eastern forms of civilization, and correct[s]...common misapprehensions. The two following essays deal with the ancient Hellenism...[T]he next two essays...look at the first entrance of the Christian life into this world which fears death, the distinctive Christian idea of the Redeemer...In the eighth and ninth essays some questions of moral value connected with the Christian view of life are discussed...[T]he tenth and eleventh essays consider the question whither the whole process is tending, since our idea of the significance of any factor in the world movement must be determined as much by our forecast of what it is leading to as by our view of its antecedents. (Preface)

Editions and translations

Published in London (G. Allen & Unwin ltd., 1921). Reprinted several times in London (G. Allen & Unwin ltd., 1922-1931), New York, NY (George H. Doran Co., 1922), Freeport, NY (Books for Libraries Press, 1967), New York, NY (Arno, 1967).

Table of contents

• 1. The East and the West
• 2. Bacchylides
• 3. The Greek Anthology
• 4. The First Contact of Christianity and Paganism
• 5. The Gnostic Redeemer
• 6. Between Two Worlds
• 7. The Prophet of Personality
• 8. Dirt
• 9. A Paradox of Christianity
• 10. Human Progress
• 11. The Problem of Eschatology
• 12. Reason and Dogma
• 13. Christianity in the Modern World

External links

• Google Books (partial text)