GA 8 · Writings

Das Christentum als mystische Tatsache und die Mysterien des Altertums (1902)

Christianity as Mystical Fact

German: Served English: served Read on this site Record (JSON)

German source unrecorded

Publication

Status in the catalogpublished the site's GA catalog
Kindtext the site's GA catalog
ISBN

Editions of the German volume

EditionYearPagesWitness
91989218the publisher's online catalog
1989AnthroWiki (German)

Printed contents

16 units in the printed table of contents, about 42,918 words the printed table of contents. Edition of 1959.

The units as printed
HeadingDatePlaceKindWords
Inhaltapparatus170
VORWORT ZUR ZWEITEN AUFLAGEtext835
GESICHTSPUNKTEtext1549
MYSTERIEN UND MYSTERIENWEISHEITtext5348
DIE GRIECHISCHEN WEISEN VOR PLATO IM LICHTE DER MYSTERIENWEISHEITtext4151
PLATO ALS MYSTIKERtext5454
DIE MYSTERIENWEISHEIT UND DER MYTHOStext5930
DIE ÄGYPTISCHE MYSTERIENWEISHEITtext3453
DIE EVANGELIENtext1977
DAS LAZARUSWUNDERtext2981
DIE APOKALYPSE DES JOHANNEStext3529
JESUS UND SEIN GESCHICHTLICHER HINTERGRUNDtext828
VOM WESEN DES CHRISTENTUMStext2010
CHRISTENTUM UND HEIDNISCHE WEISHEITtext1984
AUGUSTINUS UND DIE KIRCHEtext1999
EINIGE BEMERKUNGENtext720

German text

Served. Taken from the German pages of the Rudolf Steiner Archive (rsarchive.org); the edition and the date of retrieval were not recorded.

Units served14 the site's completeness audit
Printed units of text15 the site's completeness audit
Words served42736 the site's completeness audit
Served against the print1.0 (comparable) the site's completeness audit
Sourcehttps://www.rsarchive.org/Books/GA008/German/ the source record of the served German; unrecorded; scraped before April 2026
Edition used1959 the source record of the served German

English

Served on this site

Christianity as Mystical Fact the edition's imprint line (GA008/AP1947); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page AP1947

TranslatorH. Monges the edition's imprint line (GA008/AP1947); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
PublisherAnthroposophic Press the edition's imprint line (GA008/AP1947); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
PlaceNew York the edition's imprint line (GA008/AP1947); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
Years1947, 1972, 1986
Pages195 the edition's imprint line (GA008/AP1947); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
Translated fromtranslated from the second German edition of 1910 the edition's imprint line (GA008/AP1947); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
Identifiedby the edition's folder name in the source archive the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
As the witnesses print it

Christianity as Mystical Fact the edition's imprint line (GA008/RPC1961); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page RPC1961

TranslatorE. A. Frommer and Gabrielle Hess and Peter Kaendler the edition's imprint line (GA008/RPC1961); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
PublisherRudolf Steiner Publications the edition's imprint line (GA008/RPC1961); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
PlaceWest Nyack, New York the edition's imprint line (GA008/RPC1961); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
Years1961
Pages200 the edition's imprint line (GA008/RPC1961); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
Translated fromtranslated from the German the edition's imprint line (GA008/RPC1961); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
Identifiedby the edition's folder name in the source archive the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
As the witnesses print it
  • Christianity as Mystical Fact, Rudolf Steiner Publications, West Nyack, New York, 1961, 200 pp. plus notes, translated from the German by E. A. Frommer, Gabrielle Hess, and Peter Kaendler the edition's imprint line (GA008/RPC1961)
  • Rudolf Steiner Publications, West Nyack, New York, 1961, 200 pp. plus notes, translated from the German by E. A. Frommer, Gabrielle Hess, and Peter Kaendler the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page

Other English translations known

Listed as bibliography. They are not served here; a translation in copyright is named, never reproduced.

TitleTranslatorPublisherYearISBNRights
Christianity as Mystical Fact the SteinerBooks catalog CW 8 the SteinerBooks catalog contributors: Andrew J. Welburn, Andrew Welburn, Christopher Bamford, Michael Debus SteinerBooks the SteinerBooks catalog 1997 9780880104364
9780880108423		 in copyright
The Renewal of Education the SteinerBooks catalog CW 8 the SteinerBooks catalog contributors: Eugene Schwartz, Nancy Parsons Whittaker, Robert F. Lathe SteinerBooks the SteinerBooks catalog 2002 9780880108478 in copyright
Christianity as Mystical Fact and the Mysteries of Antiquity the SteinerBooks catalog CW 8 the SteinerBooks catalog contributors: Clifford Venho, David Ecklund SteinerBooks the SteinerBooks catalog 2021 9781734546149 in copyright
Christianity As Mystical Fact AnthroWiki (English) CW 8 AnthroWiki (English) Andrew Welburn and James H. Hindes AnthroWiki (English) Anthroposophic Press AnthroWiki (English) 1997 0-88010-436-8
Christianity As Mystical Fact AnthroWiki (English) CW 8 AnthroWiki (English) E. A. Frommer, Gabrielle Hess and Peter Kändler AnthroWiki (English) Rudolf Steiner Publishing Company AnthroWiki (English) 1961

Alignment of German and English

EditionUnitsConfidence (high, medium, low)Paragraph pairsGaps (German, English)
AP1947140, 0, 1460, 0
RPC1961170, 1, 1600, 0

A unit is a lecture or chapter; a paragraph pair maps German paragraphs to the English ones that render them. A gap is a German paragraph with no English counterpart, or the reverse. the site's alignment tables

Pictures

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Image files served0 the site's completeness audit

Quality marks

Gaps

None recorded.

How to cite this witness

Rudolf Steiner, Das Christentum als mystische Tatsache und die Mysterien des Altertums (1902) (GA 8), as served by anthroposophy.ai, https://anthroposophy.ai/ga/8/, register entry https://anthroposophy.ai/contents/8/, status as of 2026-10-21: German served; English editions AP1947, RPC1961.

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Witnesses

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the site's alignment tables
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AnthroWiki (German)
https://anthrowiki.at/GA_8
AnthroWiki's page for the volume
AnthroWiki (English)
https://en.anthro.wiki/GA_8 · read 2026-04-26T16:15:20.422803+00:00
AnthroWiki's English page for the volume
the site's blackboard index
site/api/blackboard.json · 2026-10-21T03:04:24Z
the site's GA catalog
data/steiner/ga_catalog.yaml
the publisher's online catalog
the publisher's GA-Online title list, read 2026-10-19; metadata only
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/ga_online_2026-10-19.json
the source record of the served German
data/steiner/witnesses/german_sources.json
the publisher's catalog of 2022
Rudolf Steiner Verlag, Gesamtverzeichnis 2022 (the publisher's catalog)
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/rsv_gv_2022_entries.json
the edition's imprint line (GA008/AP1947)
data/steiner-ga/data/GA008/AP1947/00_toc.md · sha256 045000f69ad23aed
the edition's imprint line (GA008/RPC1961)
data/steiner-ga/data/GA008/RPC1961/00_toc.md · sha256 cd6ab56c981cc53c
the printed table of contents
data/steiner/witnesses/ga_inhalt.json · sha256 2493b3b2c4bdd82b
the edition code
data/steiner/publisher_codes.json
the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
https://www.rsarchive.org/Books/GA008/ · sha256 12f9b0e2d6643fba
the archive's index page for the volume (cached June 2026)
the site's completeness audit
research/audits/2026-10-ga-completeness/scorecard.json · 2026-10-21
the SteinerBooks catalog
SteinerBooks catalog (Shopify products), fetched 2026-04
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/steinerbooks_cw.json

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