The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire

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THE
CONFLICT OF RELIGIONS
IN THE
EARLY ROMAN EMPIRE
BY
T. R. GLOVER
FELLOW AND CLASSICAL LECTURER OF
ST JOHN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
HON. LL.D., QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY, CANADA
FOURTH EDITION
METHUEN & CO. LTD.
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LONDON
First Published . . March 18th, 1909
Second Edition . . June 1909

Third Edition . . August 1909
Fourth Edition . . October 1910
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
LIFE AND LETTERS IN THE FOURTH CENTURY
STUDIES IN VIRGIL
PREFACE
A large part of this book formed the course of Dale
Lectures delivered in Mansfield College, Oxford, in the
Spring of 1907. For the lecture-room the chapters had to
be considerably abridged; they are now restored to their
full length, while revision and addition have further
changed their character. They are published in accordance
with the terms of the Dale foundation.
To see the Founder of the Christian movement and some
of
his
followers
as
they
appeared
among
their
contemporaries; to represent Christian and pagan with
equal goodwill and equal honesty, and in one perspective;
to recapture something of the colour and movement of life,
using imagination to interpret the data, and controlling
it by them; to follow the conflict of ideals, not in the
abstract, but as they show themselves in character and
personality; and in this way to discover where lay the
living force that changed the thoughts and lives of men,
and what it was; these have been the aims of the writer,—
impossible, but worth attempting. So far as they have been
achieved, the book is relevant to the reader.
The work of others has made the task lighter. German
scholars,
such
as
Bousset,
von
Dobschütz,
Harnack,
Pfleiderer and Wernle; Professor F. C. Burkitt and others
nearer home who have written of the beginnings of
Christianity; Boissier, Martha and Professor Samuel Dill;
Edward Caird, Lecky, and Zeller; with the authors of
monographs, Croiset, de Faye, Gréard, Koziol, Oakesmith,

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