1927. A priest in the Liberal Catholic Church, Van Der Leeuw's book is an attempt to help others to see, as he has, the deeply interesting and dramatic features of Christian history. Contents: The Setting of the Stage; The Birth of the New Faith; St. Paul and the Spreading of the Faith; Christ or Emperor, the Age of Martyrdom; Marcion and the Gnostics: Heresy or Orthodoxy? Clement of Alexandria and the Rise of Christian Theology; Origen, the Initiate in the Mysteries of Jesus; Plotinus, the Father of Christian Mysticism; Constantine and the Triumph of Christianity; Athanasius, the Defender of the Faith; St. Augustine, the Passionate Seeker after God; and St. Augustine, the Mystic. See other works available by this author from Kessinger Publishing.