Originally a pamphlet published in 1853, The Two Babylons is
Hislop's most famous work. In this book he argues that the Roman
Catholic Church is nothing more than pagan cult, with roots in
Babylonian mystery cults, which have a bank of secret knowledge
only available to those who have been formally accepted into the
cult. Roman Catholics, Hislop argues, are descendants from early
Christians who adopted the Roman religion descended from the
worship of Semiramis, the wife of the founder of Babylon. By
discrediting the true Christianity of Catholics, Hislop hoped to
bolster the legitimacy of the Protestant and Scottish Reformations.
Students of theology and those interested in the complex history of
Christianity will find Hislop's arguments provocative enough that
they may be moved to further research of their own. Scottish
minister ALEXANDER HISLOP (1807-1865) became an ordained clergymen
in the Free Church of Scotland in 1844. As a Presbyterian minister,
Hislop was famously critical of the Roman Catholic Church. He wrote
a number of books including Christ's Crown and Covenant (1860) and
The Moral Identity of Babylon and Rome (1855).
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