PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I. REMAINS OF PAGANISM IN CHRISTIANITY.
CHAPTER II. PAGAN METHODS OF INTERPRETING THE SCRIPTURES.
CHAPTER III. ASIATIC PAGAN WATER-WORSHIP.
CHAPTER IV. WATER-WORSHIP IN NORTHERN EUROPE AND IN MEXICO.
CHAPTER V. GREEK WATER-WORSHIP.
CHAPTER VI. PAGAN WATER-WORSHIP TRANSFERRED TO CHRISTIANITY.
CHAPTER VII. PAGAN SUN-WORSHIP.
CHAPTER VIII. SUNDAY OBSERVANCE UNKNOWN TO CHRISTIANITY BEFORE THE MIDDLE OF THE SECOND CENTURY.
CHAPTER IX. STATE RELIGION A PAGAN INSTITUTION.
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.
CHAPTER XIII. SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED.
CHAPTER XIV. FIVE CONCLUSIONS.
INDEX.
Transcriber's Notes:
BY ABRAM HERBERT LEWIS, D.D.
AUTHOR OF “BIBLICAL TEACHINGS CONCERNING THE SABBATH AND THE SUNDAY,” “A CRITICAL HISTORY OF THE SABBATH AND THE SUNDAY IN THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH,” “A CRITICAL HISTORY OF SUNDAY LEGISLATION FROM 321 TO 1888, A.D.,” ETC.
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The Knickerbocker Press
1892
