Hellenism and Christianity

Hellenism and Christianity – is a work which was published in 1922 and written by Edwyn Robert Bevan. He was a versatile British philosopher, Honorary Fellow on New College, Oxford and historian of the Hellenistic world. The essays that make up this book were written at different times for different occasions. Nevertheless, the author dared to believe that, collected in one volume represent a mental unity - a single complex of interests, observations and ideas, which is the reaction of one person to the spectacle of the universe. In the history of humanity over these last few thousand years, when humanity began to acquire what can be called history in a more specific sense, it seems that the two predominant factors are the growth of a rationalistic culture, first in ancient Greece and then again in modern European civilization and the entry of the Christian life into the world process. This volume consists of thirteen essays such as: The East and the West; Bacchylides; The Greek Anthology; The First Contact of Christianity Paganism; The Gnostic Redeemer; Between Two Worlds; The Prophet of Personality and others.