Libro Darkness and Dawn De Farrar, Frederic William

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Frederic William Farrar

Editorial

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

420

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm

Peso

0.56 kg.

ISBN13

9781508470014

Categorías

Historia de la humanidad
Historia de la religión

Darkness and Dawn

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Reseña del libro "Darkness and Dawn"

I have endeavoured to choose a title for this book which shall truly describe its contents. The 'Darkness' of which I speak is the darkness of a decadent Paganism; the 'Dawn' is the dawn of Christianity. Although the story is continuous, I have called it 'Scenes in the Days of Nero, ' because the outline is determined by the actual events of Pagan and Christian history, more than by the fortunes of the characters who are here introduced. In other words, the fiction is throughout controlled and dominated by historic facts. The purport of this tale is no less high and serious than that which I have had in view in every other book which I have written. It has been the illustration of a supreme and deeply interesting problem-the causes, namely, why a religion so humble in its origin and so feeble in its earthly resources as Christianity, won so majestic a victory over the power, the glory, and the intellect of the civilised world. The greater part of the following story has been for some years in manuscript, and, since it was designed, and nearly completed, several books have appeared which deal with the same epoch. Some of these I have not seen. From none of them have I consciously borrowed even the smallest hint