The Advantage and Necessity of the Christian Revelation, Shewn from the State of Religion in the Ancient Heathen World, Especially with Respect to the Knowledge and Worship of the One True God. A Rule of Moral Duty and a State of Future Rewards and Punishments. To which is Prefixed, a Preliminary Disourse on Natural and Revealed Religion in Two Volumes. By John Leland ... - Vol. 1. [-2.!. - The Second Edition. - Glasgow Printed at the University Press
The Advantage and Necessity of the Christian Revelation, Shewn from the State of Religion in the Ancient Heathen World, Especially with Respect to the Knowledge and Worship of the One True God. A Rule of Moral Duty and a State of Future Rewards and Punishments. To which is Prefixed, a Preliminary Disourse on Natural and Revealed Religion in Two Volumes. By John Leland ... - Vol. 1. [-2.!. - The Second Edition. - Glasgow Printed at the University Press

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Total Pages: 442

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Eleusis and Enlightenment
Eleusis and Enlightenment

Author: Ferdinand Saumarez Smith

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2024-03-21

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9004692304

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The age of Enlightenment – the so-called age of reason – was also, paradoxically, the age of the Eleusinian mysteries. By attempting to reveal Demeter's secret cult, British, French, and German thinkers and freemasons of the eighteenth century revealed more than they bargained for: the pagan origins of Christian doctrines such as the Trinity and the afterlife, and through the mythical gift of law and agriculture to Eleusis an alternative narrative of the origins of civilisation to that found in the Bible.