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John Denham Parsons. The Non-Christian Cross
The Non-Christian Cross
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I
WAS THE STAUROS OF JESUS CROSS-SHAPED?
CHAPTER II
THE EVIDENCE OF MINUCIUS FELIX
CHAPTER III
THE EVIDENCE OF THE OTHER FATHERS
CHAPTER IV
CURIOUS STATEMENTS OF IRENÆUS
CHAPTER V
ORIGIN OF THIS PRE-CHRISTIAN CROSS
CHAPTER VI
ORIGIN OF THE CHRISTIAN CROSS
CHAPTER VII
THE ESTABLISHER OF THE CHURCH
CHAPTER VIII
CROSS AND CRESCENT
CHAPTER IX
THE CORONATION ORB
CHAPTER X
ROMAN COINS BEFORE CONSTANTINE
CHAPTER XI
THE COINS OF CONSTANTINE
CHAPTER XII
ROMAN COINS AFTER CONSTANTINE
CHAPTER XIII
THE MONOGRAM OF CHRIST
CHAPTER XIV
THE CROSS OF THE LOGOS
CHAPTER XV
THE PRE-CHRISTIAN CROSS IN EUROPE
CHAPTER XVI
THE PRE-CHRISTIAN CROSS IN ASIA
CHAPTER XVII
THE PRE-CHRISTIAN CROSS IN AFRICA
CHAPTER XVIII
EVIDENCE OF TROY
CHAPTER XIX
EVIDENCE OF CYPRUS
CHAPTER XX
MISCELLANEOUS EVIDENCE
CHAPTER XXI
SUMMARY
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John Denham Parsons
An Enquiry into the Origin and History of the Symbol Eventually Adopted as That of Our Religion
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Granting, however, as all must, that most if not all of the earlier of the Fathers, and certainly all the later ones, rightly or wrongly interpreted the word stauros as meaning something cross-shaped, let us, remembering that this does not dispose of the question whether they rightly or wrongly so interpreted it, in this and the next two chapters pass in review the references to the cross made by the Fathers who lived before Constantine's march upon Rome at the head of his Gaulish army.
Commencing, on account of its importance, with the evidence of Minucius Felix, we find that this Father wrote
