Chapter V

	The Christian Faith and Other Religions
	The Universal Mission of Christianity	165
I.	Christianity and Ancient Religions	165
	The resemblances and their significance	166
	Clemen’s “religious-historical” principles	168
	1. The Virgin Birth and its alleged parallels	169
	2. The worship of Christ and the worship of the Emperor: origin of the “Kyrios” title	172
	3. Paul and the Mystery Religions	177
	Pauline doctrine of the Sacraments and of dying and rising with Christ	180
	The Pauline vocabulary: views of Reitzenstein	185
	Why did Christianity conquer the Roman Empire?	192
II.	Christianity and Modern Religions	193
	The missionary propaganda	194
	Dangers of compromise	195
	The Christian Plerosis: the fulfillment of the great religious ideas of the race	197