Excerpt from Comparative Theology
Christian Theology has, for the most part, been studied as a subject in a vacuum, separated, that is, by an impassable gulf from the religions of paganism. Some light was allowed to be thrown upon it from Judaism, but every other faith remained without in a horror of pagan darkness.
The abundant materials for the study of pagan belief opened up by our increasing knowledge of the history of religion, of folklore, of anthropology, have made this attitude no longer possible. Nay, the likeness of many aspects of pagan belief to those of Christianity makes it necessary to consider their real relation.
Is it a relationship of antagonism or of preparation, or does the existence of similar beliefs in paganism and Christianity prove that both are equally false?
I have tried to answer these questions here, taking advantage of the mine of wealth which has been laid bare by what is inaptly styled the "science of religion."
My own view is that God has never left Himself without witness, and that these beliefs of heathen races - the hopes of paganism - have been fulfilled in Christianity.
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