Explores the way in which Jewish rabbis during the first Christian centuries preserved and passed on their sacred tradition, and he shows how early Christianity is better understood in light of how that tradition developed in Rabbinic Judaism.

The Bhagavad Gita influenced Western writers like Southey, Emerson and Thoreau and as a result of these interpretations, became popularized in India. This book analyzes this Westernized Hinduism and examines such groups as the Hare Krishna movement and German National Socialists.

Nathan Soderblom (1866 - 1931), the Swedish scholar, churchman, and winner of the 1930 Nobel Peace Prize, was one of the early twentieth century's most influential Protestant thinkers. Christianity, he was convinced, had nothing to fear from close historical examination. For him, the religious ideal and the scientific ideal were one, and "truth" was something revealed in the historical process, inseparable from the conditions governing historical experience.

Originally published in 1990.

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Description: Rex Gloriae is an account of the way in which the New Testament representation of Christ in royal categories lived on during the pre-Constantinian period; how it became enriched by its confrontation with Hellenistic culture; and how this development, in the course of the doctrinal disputes of the fourth century, gave rise to the conception of Christ as King that dominated the theology of the Byzantine period and the Middle Ages in the West.