The Achievements and the Days Book III. The Christian Enigma

by Roland Maes

Overview

The Christian Enigma describes the rise of the Christian faith within the Roman Empire. We are so used to the spiritual values it imposed that the vast majority of us does not imagine that the establishment of the Christian faith and the emergence of Christendom were a highly implausible event. The Christian esoteric faith was unlikely to blossom in its native form within the Roman Empire. Its adaptation to the Greek mentality was not self-evident and allowed its adoption by the emperor Constantine, whose accession to the Purple was not initially acquired. The further protection lent by succeeding emperors to the Christian faith appears providential. It favoured the ensuing creation of Christendom. The extreme unlikelihood of such an event leads to the conclusion that it was an evolutive convergence.

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BN ID:	2940011314995
Publisher:	Roland Maes
Publication date:	04/27/2011
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About the Author

Roland Maes was born in 1935 in Belgium. After acquiring a degree in zoology at the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium), he studied virology at the Max Planck Institute for Virus Research (Tübingen, Germany) and at the Wistar Institute of Anatomy (Philadelphia, USA). He worked during a year at St Jude Children’s Hospital in Memphis, always in virology and thereafter was during four years Research Officer for the Pan American Health Organization, stationed near Rio de Janeiro, where he worked on hoof and mouth disease and interferon. He moved thereafter shortly to Brussels (European Headquarters of Travenol) and then to Strasbourg, where he was active at the Richardson-Merrel Research institute. He resolved to create his own company in Strasbourg, working mainly on the development of diagnostic tools for tuberculosis and on alternative medicine. This occupation put him in close contact with developing countries of the Asian and African continent. R. Maes is the author of numerous scientific publications.