Conversion: The Old and the New in Religion from Alexander the Great to Augustine of Hippo by Nock, A. D.

Conversion: The Old and the New in Religion from Alexander the Great to Augustine of Hippo (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780801859106)

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Conversion: The Old and the New in Religion from Alexander the Great to Augustine of Hippo by Nock, A. D.

Conversion: The Old and the New in Religion from Alexander the Great to Augustine of Hippo

$34.00
Conversion: The Old and the New in Religion from Alexander the Great to Augustine of Hippo by Nock, A. D.

Conversion: The Old and the New in Religion from Alexander the Great to Augustine of Hippo

$34.00
Format: Paperback
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Originally published in 1933, Conversion is a seminal study of the psychology and circumstances of conversion from about 500 B.C.E. to about 400 A.D. A.D. Nock not only discusses early Christianity and its converts, but also examines non-Christian religions and philosophy, the means by which they attracted adherents, and the factors influencing and limiting their success. Christianity succeeded, he argues, in part because it acquired and adapted those parts of other philosophies and religions that had a popular appeal.



Author: Arthur Darby Nock, A. D. Nock
ISBN-10: 0801859107
ISBN-13: 9780801859106
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/24/1998
Pages: 321
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.49h x 5.53w x 0.72d
By Arthur Darby Nock
By Arthur Darby Nock
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Arthur Darby Nock (1902-1963) was the Frothingham Professor of the History of Religion at Harvard University. He was for years one of the world's leading authorities on the religions of later antiquity. He is also the author of Early Gentile Christianity and Its Hellenistic Background and Essays on Religion and the Ancient World.

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