Chapter V: The Christian Faith and Other Religions

The Universal Mission of Christianity 165

I. Christianity and Ancient Religions 165
The resemblances and their significance 166
Clemen's "religious-historical" principles 168
1. The Virgin Birth and its alleged parallels 169
2. The worship of Christ and the worship of the
Emperor: origin of the "Kyrios" title 172
3. Paul and the Mystery Religions 177
Pauline doctrine of the Sacraments and of dying and
rising with Christ 180
The Pauline vocabulary: views of Reitzenstein 185
Why did Christianity conquer the Roman Empire? 192

II. Christianity and Modern Religions 193
The missionary propaganda 194
Dangers of compromise 195
The Christian _Plerosis_: the fulfillment of the great
religious ideas of the race 197