Sentences with phrase «hellenistic mystery religions»

It is beyond dispute that postbiblical Christianity took over many elements from ancient metaphysics and ethics, the oriental - Hellenistic mystery religions, and the hermetic and neo-Platonic mysticism, and even from popular pagan piety and legal wisdom.

However, his own interpretation of his experience was undoubtedly colored by various factors such as personal history and Jewish messianic expectations, possibly combined with elements of Hellenistic mystery religions with which he would certainly have been familiar.

Nor can we go into the historical problem of the rise of sacramentalism under the influence of the Hellenistic mystery religions.

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Before the flourishing of Bultmann's career, New Testament scholarship had been dominated by literary criticism, which attempted to uncover the secret of how the texts were compiled; by investigation of the Hellenistic background, especially the mystery religions surrounding the early church, as part of a sociological critique of the history of religion; and by excitement about the apocalyptic content of the teaching of Jesus as a first century Jew.

The myth of a mystery religion (or the symbol of the comparative - religious school) could only point Out what ought to be; as the «law» of the Hellenistic world it would simply be a new legalism ending like the Jewish law in despair (Rom.

From this Hellenistic theology there developed the understanding of baptism as new birth and new creation - ideas familiar to the mystery religions, but corrected by linking the interpretation with eschatology and by introducing moral obligations.