----------------------------------------------- | | | Harper's Library of Living Thought | | | |-----------------------------------------------| | | | By Prof W.M. FLINDERS PETRIE | | | | PERSONAL RELIGION IN EGYPT | | BEFORE CHRISTIANITY | | | | | | "The author gauges what ideas were already | | part of the religious thought in the first | | century, and what were the terms and ideas | | in Christianity which were new to mankind. | | The current literature of the time was as | | naturally taken for granted by Christians as | | were the books of the Old Testament which | | were familiar to them. The separation of the | | new ideas in the teaching of Christ and of | | the Apostles from the general terms of | | religion at the time, is the only road to | | understanding what Christianity meant to | | those who actually heard the teaching." | | | | _Notts Guardian._ | | | | "A suggestive and thought-provoking book, a | | real contribution to the study of | | comparative religion." | | | | _Methodist Recorder._ | | | | | -----------------------------------------------