Sunday: The Origin of its Observance in the Christian Church
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTORY | 5 |
ANTIQUITY, UNIVERSALITY, AND NATURE OF SUNWORSHIP | 14 |
APOSTASY FROM JEHOVAH-WORSHIP TO SUNWORSHIP | 25 |
APOSTASY TO SUN-WORSHIP ALWAYS ACCOMPANIED BY SABBATH DESECRATION | 30 |
HEATHEN INFLUENCES IN THE CHURCH | 35 |
THE ECLECTIC PHILOSOPHY | 42 |
NEO-PLATONISM | 47 |
ORIGEN’S PART IN PAGANIZING THE CHURCH | 52 |
RESULTS OF THIS PHILOSOPHICAL HANDLING OF THE BIBLE | 57 |
THE CHURCH COMPLETELY PAGANIZED | 61 |
PAGAN RESPONSE TO THE CHURCH’S ADVANCES | 79 |
CONSTANTINE, | 89 |
CONSTANTINE, THE CHURCH AND SUNDAY | 101 |