St. Paul and the mystery religions / by H. A. A. Kennedy.

  • Harry Kennedy
Date:
[pref. 1913]
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    Isis (Osiris-Serapis) cult, date of Apuleius’ account of, 69; wide diffusion of, 75, 98; relation of Ptolemies to, 75, 76, 96 f.; in Rome, 77, 98; origin of Serapis, 97 ; Osiris-festivals, 97 ff.; as¬ similation of initiates to Osiris, 99; fascination of, 99; funda¬ mental ideas of, 99, 100 ; descrip¬ tion of, by Apuleius, 100-102; religious significance of, 102, 108. Jesus Christ, comparison of, with Mystery-deities, 211; communion with, in Paul, alien to Mystery- conceptions, 218-215, 220, 221 ; nature of communion with, for Paul, 221-228, 269-271, 290, 291; relation of communion with, to Spirit, 224; ethical character of communion with, 225, 277 ; death and resurrection with, in Paul, 225 ; difference of content in this idea from Mystery-conceptions, 227; baptism and communion with, in Paul, 241; communion with body and blood of, 269 ff., 290. See Communion. Judaism, influence of Paganism on, 57 f., 61; contact of, with Ori¬ ental mysticism, 59 ; pressure of Babylonian and Persian thought on, 60-62. KarayyeWeiv, meaning of, in Paul’s account of Lord’s Supper, 270. nvpios 2afiucv0, relation of, to nvpios ^afid^LOS, 58. Liturgy of Mithra, difficulty of dating, 69; hymn in, 108 n.; prosaic elements in, 110 ; funda¬ mental character of, 114 w.; re¬ generation in, 143, 146, 178; de¬ ification in, 203. Lord’s Supper, meaning of, for Paul, 262-279 ; data for Paul’s view of, 263,264; authoritative pronounce ment on, in 1 Cor. xi. 23 ff., 274 ff. ; various aspects of, 275 ; no magical element in, for Paul, 276; central place of faith in, 277 ff. Magic, in Egyptian religion, 63; Jewish elements in Egyptian, 63 ; in Liturgy of Mithra, 110; in Hermetic literature, 112, 113 ; alleged traces of, in Paul’s idea of sacraments, 233, 283. Manna, comparison of, with bread in Lord’s Supper, 267. Methodius, 292. Mithraism, 114, n. Mystery-religions, scanty evidence for, 68 ; difficulties as to chron¬ ology of, 69 ; features common to, 69 f. ; influence of Greek Mysti¬ cism on, 70 ; wide diffusion of, 72 ff. ; aim of, 79, 199 ff. ; Isis- ritual typical of, 102; termin¬ ology of, in Paul, 117-120 ; as ele¬ ments of Paul’s environment, 79 f., 115, 280 f.; crude conceptions in, 200 ff. ; Loisy’s parallel be¬ tween, and Paulinism, 211 ff. ; central ideas of, different from Paul’s, 213-215, 219, 221, 223, 228, 282. See Communion, Deifica¬ tion, Regeneration, Salvation. Mysticism, astral, 6, 7 ; in earliest Hebrew prophets, 33 f. ; in Psalms, 36 ; in relation to Jewish mind, 38, 47, 48 ; in Judaism, 43, 47; disparagement of, in Rab- binism, 45; connected with famous Rabbis, 50 ; relation of, to allegorical exegesis, 51 ; in Paul, 31, 33, 223 n., 284-293; common suspicion of, 284 ; faith central in Paul’s, 285, 288, 289; universal phenomena of, 32, 286 ; relation of Paul’s, to his conver¬ sion, 288 ; ethical quality of Paul’s, 289 ; special character of Paul’s, 290, 291; limits of Paul’s, 291, 292 ; eschatological elements in Paul’s, 294 f.