Sentences with phrase «mediterranean mystery religions»
For several centuries before it came to characterize Christian assembly, a congregational form of organization shaped the local gatherings of both Judaism and some Mediterranean mystery religions.
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The liturgical heritage of Judaism, the psychological and practical needs of the worshiping group, and the inexorable pressure of ideas and customs in the Mediterranean world, especially in the mystery religions, presaged the development in Christianity, as in other faiths, of ritual and sacrament.
Jesus is a myth like Apollo and Hercules and Christianity is nothing but a syncretism of Mediterranean paganism, Egyptian mystery religion, Jewish Essenism, and Grrek and Roman elements.