Confluence of Opposites

SR No.: 006704
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: Champat Rai Jain
Publication Year: 1921
Total Pages: 422
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 15 MB

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MYTHOLOGY
biography to a set of astronomical mythe, but the anonynuous German work mentioned by Strauss as reducing it to an ideal which had a prior existence in the Jewish mind, thongh admitting divergences."...("Cbristianity
and Mythology" by J. M. Robertson, p. 276). Another writer of note, and one who was for a number of years associated most intimately with the Christian Church from which he ultimately withdrew himself, is Joseph McCabe who writes in his "Bankruptcy of Religion," pp. 162 et seq. as follows :“ The science of comparative religion... enquires how the
mythical Jeggs of the Gospele was evolved and the task is not difficnlt. We do not know where the gospels were written, but we know that at the time they were written Christianity was spread over the eastern end of the Mediterranean at least from Alexandria to Corinth, and the fival Gospels were most probably written in that region. Now in these cities the myths and creeds and priesthoods of all religions were richly represented. Priests of Egypt, Syria, Persia, Greece, Rome and of less known provinces of the Empire, set up their temples and vigoronely proselytised everywhere. Myths, legende and rites passed easily from one religion to another. Many of the myths were found to resemble each other closely in religions. which came from quite distant countries...... There never was such a melting pot in the history of the world as that eastern shore of the Mediterranean in the first century of our era when Rome
fuged the natious into one empiro. "Careful research into the movements of the old empires, the
sacred books of the old religious, the writings of the Christian fathers and certain of the pagaus have now