Excerpt from Phases of Early Christianity: Six Lectures HE period selected for illustration in the following. Lectures extends roughly over a century and a half, 100-250 ad. Christianity had been launched into the Roman Empire; it was already involved in the conflict with imperial ism and popular mythology, and exposed to the various influences of Hellenic philosophy, and Oriental religions. In the attempt to delineate in brief the phases of its inner development much had to be taken for granted and much left unsaid. Where every step has been the subject of eager. 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.