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Bfl His CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY FROM Tne Estate of Preserve;! S-nith Cornell University Library BR145 .R65 1913 Short history of Christianity by J.M. R 3 1924 029 223 173 olin The tine original of tiiis bool is in Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924029223173 A SHOKT HISTOEY OF CHEISTIANITY BT THE SAME AUTHOB. ESSAYS TOWARDS A CRITICAL JilETHOD. (O. P.) ESSAYS TOWARDS A CRITICAL METHOD. NEW WINNOWINGS FROM WORDSWORTH. WALT WHITMAN An Appreciation. MONTAIGNE AND SHAKESPEARE. : (O. P.) (Second Edition, with additional Essays on cognate subjects.) BUCKLE AND HIS CRITICS a THE SAXON AND THE CELT: Sociological Study. a Sociological Study. HUMANISTS: Essays on Carlyle, Mill, Emerson, Arnold, Ruskin, and Spencer. (Fourth Edition.) : MODERN THE FALLACY OP SAYING a Study in Economics. THE EIGHT HOURS QUESTION: a Study in Economics. : (Second Edition.) OF RELIGION THE DYNAMICS " (By M. W. Wiseman.") : an Essay in English Culture-History. (O. P.) A SHORT HISTORY OF FREETHOUGHT, Edition : Ancient and Modern. (Second 2 vols.) PATRIOTISM AND EMPIRE. (Third:Edition .) STUDIES IN RELIGIOUS FALLACY. (O. P.) WRECKING THE EMPIRE. (O. P.) CRITICISMS. (0. P.) 2 vols. TENNYSON AND BROWNING AS TEACHERS. ESSAYS IN ETHICS. ESSAYS IN SOCIOLOGY. 2 yols. LETTERS ON REASONING. (Second Edition.) DID SHAKESPEARE WRITE "TITUS ANDRONICUS"? PIONEER HUMANISTS: EssaysonMaehlayelli, Bacon, Hobbes, Shaftesbury, Mandeville, Gibt)on, and Spinoza, Mary WoUstonecraft. TRADE AND TARIFFS. COURSES OP STUDY. CHAMBERLAIN A STUDY. CHARLES BRADLAUGH. By Mrs. Bradlaugh Bonner. Part II. by J. M.R, CHRISTIANITY AND MYTHOLOGY. (Second Edition.) PAGAN CHRISTS Studies in Comparative Hierology. (Second Edition, : : Revised and Expanded.) THE MEANING OF LIBERALISM. THE EVOLUTION OF STATES. (Revised Introduction to English Politics.) RATIONALISM. THE BACONIAN HERESY. and expanded edition of An A SHOKT HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY BY J. M. EOBEETSON SECOND EDITION, EEYISED, WITH ADDITIONS [issued rOB THE EATIONAIIST PBB8S ASSOCIATION, LIMITED] London 17 : WATTS & CO., JOHNSON'S COUET, FLEET STREET, 1913 E.G. CONTENTS PAGE Preface to the first Edition ix Pebfacb to the Second Edition xiU Part I PEIMITIVE CHEISTIANITY I— The Beginnings Chap. § 3. Documentary Clues The Earliest Christian Sects Personality of the Nominal Pounder § 4. Myth § 5. Primary Forms § 6. Eise of Gentile Christism § 7. Growth § 1. § 2. n—the Chap, of the Twelve Apostles environment and Mental Conditions in the Eoman Empire Social § 2. § 3. Jewish Orthodoxy Jewish Sects the Essenes § 4. Gentile Cults 5. Ethics : 1 § 2. § 3. § 4. § 5. . 41 46 49 51 : Popular and Philosophic hi— Conditions § 20 28 Myth<