LANDMARKS

IN THE HISTORY OF

EARLY CHRISTIANITY

BY

KIRSOPP LAKE, D.D.

WINN PROFESSOR OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY

MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON
1920

COPYRIGHT

TO
H. R.

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PREFACE

The following chapters are the lectures given in the spring of 1919 onthe Haskell Foundation of Oberlin College. They have been somewhatexpanded in the course of preparation for the press, but have not beenmaterially changed.

At the time of the delivery of these lectures I was busy with thechapter on "Primitive Christianity" in the Prolegomena to Acts, andwas glad of the opportunity to re-state some of the conclusions reachedin that book in a less technical form and with more attention to theirbearing on some of the larger questions of religion and thought, suchas the Teaching of Jesus, the Hope of Immortality, and the Developmentof Christology. I did not hesitate to make use of one or twoparagraphs from the larger book, and I think that my friend, Mr. C. G.Montefiore, will forgive me for having borrowed two beautiful storiesfrom his chapter in it.

I am greatly indebted to the Faculty of Oberlin{viii}College not onlyfor the privilege of lecturing to them, but also for the hospitalityextended to me during a very pleasant week and for the beginning of newand delightful friendships.

KIRSOPP LAKE.

CAMBRIDGE, MASS.,April 1920.

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