Messiahs: Christian and Pagan (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Messiahs: Christian and Pagan Samuel Butler once remarked that "the more original a writer is, the more pleasure will he take in calling attention to the forgotten work of those who have gone before him." The present writer would, indeed, fain be original in the sense denoted by Butler, but the circumstances surrounding the subject of messianic religions seem successfully to preclude this type of originality. The topic of messianic religions, in its wider bearings, has been, so far as we are aware, a neglected one. Nowhere do we have a study of the distribution of these phenomena. Neither, it would seem, has any one attempted to correlate the phenomena of a given culture with other social or political conditions so as to give us an insight into causes, or even occasions. From this point of view it must be confessed that not even the Jewish messianic movements, the best known and most studied of all of them, have ever received adequate treatment. Theologians have generally restricted their studies to a particular period or to a particular influence, paying more attention to textual matters than to sociological and psychological conditions. Even those who have approached the matter historically, as, for example, Greenstone in his study of The Messiah Idea, have left large gaps in the evidence and seem unaware of the connecting threads and the similar underlying conditions that open up a large field for original investigation. Mooney and Chamberlain, among ethnologists, have approached the study of American messianic movements from a more profitable angle, but they too have left the evidence incomplete. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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