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Table of Contents
ОглавлениеCHAPTER I. REMAINS OF PAGANISM IN CHRISTIANITY.
CHAPTER II. PAGAN METHODS OF INTERPRETING THE SCRIPTURES.
CHAPTER III. ASIATIC PAGAN WATER-WORSHIP.
Corrupting Influence of Pagan Water-Worship.
Purity Sought through Baptism.
Baptism at Death, and for the Dead.
CHAPTER IV. WATER-WORSHIP IN NORTHERN EUROPE AND IN MEXICO.
Water Securing Immunity from Disease.
CHAPTER V. GREEK WATER-WORSHIP.
Influence of the “Greek Mysteries.”
CHAPTER VI. PAGAN WATER-WORSHIP TRANSFERRED TO CHRISTIANITY.
Roman Catholics Defend this Use.
Sun-Worship and Water-Worship.
CHAPTER VII. PAGAN SUN-WORSHIP.
The Simultaneous Development of Anti-Sabbathism and of Sunday Observance.
Antinomianism and Anti-Sabbathism Unscriptural.
CHAPTER VIII. SUNDAY OBSERVANCE UNKNOWN TO CHRISTIANITY BEFORE THE MIDDLE OF THE SECOND CENTURY.
Christ’s Resurrection and Sunday.
The Sabbath in the New Testament.
Pagan Reasons for Observing Sunday.
CHAPTER IX. STATE RELIGION A PAGAN INSTITUTION.
Christ’s Attitude Toward the State.
CHAPTER X. THE CONTROL OF CHRISTIANITY BY THE STATE UNDER CONSTANTINE AND HIS SUCCESSORS.
CHAPTER XI. CONSTANTINE’S LEGISLATION CONCERNING THE PAGAN SUNDAY.
CHAPTER XII. OTHER FORMS OF PAGAN RESIDUUM IN CHRISTIANITY.
A Low Standard of Christian Life.
The Cross, its Sign, and other Charms.
The Sign of the Cross in Baptism.
Baptism and “Holy Water” as “Charms.”
CHAPTER XIII. SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED.
Purgatory and Prayers for the Dead.
CHAPTER XIV. FIVE CONCLUSIONS.
(1) Reinstatement of the Bible.
(2) Biblical Interpretation; Higher Criticism.
