Delivered as the Hibbert Lectures of 1888 and completed after Hatch’s death by A. M. Fairbairn, these lectures ask how the faith of the Sermon on the Mount became the creed of Nicaea. Hatch traces the imprint of Greek schooling, allegorical exegesis, rhetoric, Stoic and Platonic ethics and theology, and the mystery religions on Christian thought and worship.
A landmark of nineteenth-century church history that still frames debates about Hellenism and early Christianity. Download the free EPUB.