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Conversion

Name: Conversion
Brand: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
SKU: 9780801859106
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JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESSISBN: 9780801859106

The Old and the New in Religion from Alexander the Great to Augustine of Hippo

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By A. D. Nock
Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: April 16, 1998
Format: PAPERBACK
Pages: 321

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Originally published in 1933, Conversion is a seminal study of the psychology and circumstances of conversion from about 500 B.C. E. to about 400 A.D. A.D. Nock not only discusses early Christianity and its converts, but also examines non-Christian religions and philosophy, the means by which they attracted adherents, and the factors influencing and limiting their success. Christianity succeeded, he argues, in part because it acquired and adapted those parts of other philosophies and religions that had a popular appeal.

""The reader will find much to fascinate him in the author's development of this theme. With a sure hand he traces the ways by which Eastern religious ideas penetrated the West, following paths of trade, carried by soldiers from one end of the empire to the other, communicated by Oriental slaves to Roman masters.""

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