The religions of the west: Etruria-Rome-Gaul-GermanyGibbings, 1906 - Judaism |
Contents
BOOK | 3 |
THE RELIGIOUS SYSTEM OF THE ROMANS | 9 |
Influence of Greek mythology | 15 |
The Capitoline temple | 22 |
Hellenising of the gods | 29 |
Signs of decay in religion | 35 |
Service of Janus | 39 |
Ceres | 47 |
Domination of poor over rich | 235 |
Their treatment | 241 |
Marriage a duty | 247 |
Socrates and Platos views upon it | 253 |
Exposition of children as good as allowed | 259 |
Strangers out of the pale of the law | 265 |
forms of marriage | 266 |
Advantages of the unmarried state | 272 |
Diana | 53 |
The vast numbers of inferior deities | 65 |
THE ROMAN PRIESTHOOD | 77 |
Rite of sacrifice | 88 |
Expiations and purifications lustrations | 94 |
INVESTIGATION OF THE WILL OF THE GODS | 104 |
Augury from flight of birds | 110 |
Great numbers of human sacrifices among the Gauls | 117 |
Priests and sacrifice | 123 |
Partiality to Stoicism in Rome | 131 |
The Platonics and their position in regard to the other schools | 137 |
AUGUSTAN AGEPLINY TACITUS | 143 |
Cicero on immortality | 149 |
Despondency | 155 |
Platonists | 161 |
Decay and dissolution | 168 |
APOTHEOSIS | 174 |
Blending of superstition with religious spirit | 179 |
Success of the cultus of Isis | 186 |
Theoleptics and Fanatics possessed people | 192 |
Prayers their material nay immoral objects | 198 |
Deification of the emperors | 205 |
Impurity in temples | 208 |
Explanation of their extinction | 215 |
THE GREEKS | 219 |
MAGIC NECROMANCY AND THEURGY | 222 |
Theurgy the highest form of magic | 228 |
GREEK VERSUS BARBARIANPOLITICAL FREE | 229 |
Slaves and gladiators | 279 |
The exposition of newborn children an everyday affair | 286 |
Female debauchery | 292 |
Contempt of life suicide | 299 |
derivation of their name | 305 |
UNTIL THE ELEVATION OF THE ASMONEAN DYNASTY | 309 |
Their hellenising in foreign countries | 315 |
The Pharisees no sect but representatives of the whole nation | 323 |
time of their rise | 329 |
THE TIMES OF THE ASMONEANS AND FAMILY OF HEROD | 336 |
The Jews under the immediate supremacy of Rome | 343 |
Philos expectation of the same | 351 |
Constitution | 357 |
their origin and number | 360 |
Slaves and their treatment | 363 |
The Sabbath | 370 |
His position in regard to the king | 379 |
Severity against everything heathen | 386 |
Peace or thankoffering | 391 |
Fastingdays | 397 |
His transcendence and other qualities | 403 |
Fall original sin demands and mercy of God | 409 |
The suffering Messias | 415 |
Magical and formal character of prayer | 417 |
derives the Greek wisdom from Moses | 423 |
Composition of the human soul | 429 |
their rule of terror | 435 |
Bar Cochba | 441 |
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The religions of the west: Etruria-Rome-Gaul-Germany Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger No preview available - 1906 |