x, 417 pages : 24 cm

"Presented to Dr. Shirley Jackson Case ... as a tribute to his scholarship and leadership. The writers are his former colleagues and students."--Preface

The significance of John the Baptist for the beginnings of Christianity / Ernest William Parsons -- Religious healing in first-century Palestine / Selby Vernon McCasland -- The Hellenization of Jewish Messianism in early Christianity / Clyo Jackson -- Popular reactions against Christianity in the Roman empire / Ernest Cadman Colwell -- Roman religious survivals in Christianity / Gordon Jennings Laing -- Current contributions from archeology to early Christian history / Harold Rideout Willoughby -- The impact of gnosticism on early Christianity / James Thomas Carlyon -- Economic factors in the persecutions of the Christians to A.D. 260 / George Thomas Oborn -- The sources of Christian asceticism / Mervin Monroe Deems -- The effect of the barbarian invasions upon the liturgy / Massey Hamilton Shepherd, Jr. -- The feudalization of the church / John Thomas McNeill -- Aristotelianism in Western Christianity / Richard McKeon -- The influence of medieval Judaism on Christianity / Albert Eustace Haydon -- The effect of the Crusades upon Eastern Christianity / Matthew Spinka -- Renaissance culture and Christianity / Winfred Ernest Garrison -- Nationalism and European Christianity / Wilhelm Pauck -- The religion of early Freemasonry / Charles Harold Lyttle -- Christianity and the culture of India / Marvin Henry Harper -- Christianity in the modern Japanese environment / Daniel Clarence Holtom -- Religious bearings of the modern scientific movement / Edwin Ewart Aubrey -- The frontier in American Christianity / William Warren Sweet -- Bibliography of the writings of Shirley Jackson Case / compiled by Allan Cabaniss

Bibliography of Shirley Jackson Case: pages 399-407

Includes bibliographical references and index

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