The Gospel According to Peter : A Study / By the Author of 'Supernatural Religion'

anonymous [ Cassels, Walter Richard (1826-1907)]

Verlag: Longmans, Green, London, 1894

Beschreibung

23x15cm, 139 pp., Top spine edge heavily rubbed. Some tears & chips to spine & exterior hinge. Contents: The Fragment of Akhmim; The Gospel According to Peter; The Letter of Serapion; Justin Martyr & the Memoirs of Peter; The Epistle of Barnabas; The Diatessaron of Tatian; Internal Indications of Date; The Fragment & the Canonical Gospels: Relative Antiquity of the Fragment; The Fragment & Prophetic Gnosis; The Gosepls and Prophetic Gnosis; Conclusion; The Text of the Fragment. ["Walter Richard Cassels .,.spent much of his early life in India. Eventually he went into partnership with two of his brothers in a business firm in Bombay. He served in the legislative council of Bombay from 1863 to 1865. After 1865 Cassels returned to England. In 1874 an anonymous work appeared entitled Supernatural Religion:An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation. The work attracted immediate attention, and there was much speculation as to the identity of the learned author; however, no one would admit to the authorship. Many books and articles were soon written responding to the criticism of Christianity made in Supernatural Religion. The most famous of these is a series of essays by Bishop J.B. Lightfoot. The Bishop's essays were later collected and published as a book. Meanwhile, the author of Supernatural Religion was finding his book had gone into a sixth printing by 1875. In 1877 a third volume was added, and a completely revised edition appeared in 1 879. A series of anonymous replies to Bishop Lightfoot and other critics appeared -- one as a series of magazine articles, the others as notes or prefaces to subsequent printings of Supernatural Religion" - Freethought Rubbed. A 1cm chip from front exterior hinge. Just Good. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 021865

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Titel: The Gospel According to Peter : A Study / By...

Verlag: Longmans, Green, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1894

Einband: orig.cloth