The Birth of the Christian Religion

By Alfred Firmin Loisy

Translated by L. P. Jacks

From the French La Naissance du Christianisme, 1933.

With a Preface by Gilbert Murray.

English Edition, 1962.

Published in New Hyde Park, N.Y. by University Books, Inc.

Preface by Gilbert Murray O.M.	5
Author's Introduction	10
1. The Sources	17
2. The Gospel of Jesus	61
3. Birth of the Belief in Jesus as the Christ	89
4. The Birth of Apostolic Propaganda	121
5. The Apostle Paul	151
6. Persecution Begins	181
7. Birth of the Christian Mystery and of its Rites	219
8. Earliest Theories of the Christian Mystery	253
9. The Gnostic Crisis	295
10. Birth of the Catholic Church	325
Notes	361

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