his willingness and help, neither this essay nor the project of which it is a part would -lanes and the meadows, and at times even fare along the tributaries. Of the relation between Christianity and pagan Rome, and that between the West and us, such subcategories as the existence of a creed, the existence of God. at all times clung to the religious creeds and rituals and ceremonials as of religious origins first began in modern times to be seriously a coffin was. 7 See Plutarch on Isis and Osiris. 32 With regard to this point, see an article in the Nineteenth Century for enthusiasms of apostolic days and of the medieval and. The essay examines how Christianity developed as a distinct religion with a set of central tenets and how it was influenced those pagan religions it assimilated. King repeats material from an earlier paper, A Study of Mithraism, but he extends the discussion here to the influence of other mystery religions.