Primitive Christianity in Its Contemporary Setting /
Rudolf Bultmann ; translated by Reginald H. Fuller
- New York : Meridian Books, 1956
- 240 p. ; 21 cm.
Translation of : Urchristentum im Rahmen der antiken Religionen.
The Old Testament heritage. God and the world ; God and the nation ; God and man -- Judaism. Synagogue and law ; The hope of Israel ; Hellenistic Judaism -- The Greek heritage. The Greek city state ; Science and the philosophy of life -- Hellenism. The Stoic ideal of the wise man ; Star worship, fatalism and astrology ; The mystery religions ; Gnosticism -- Primitive Christianity. Primitive Christianity as a syncretistic phenomenon ; Man and his relation to time ; The situation of man in the world ; Redemption.