Book of the famous English philologist, historian and religious scholar Eric Robertson Dodds (1893-1979) "The Pagan and the Christian in Troubled Times" is devoted to one of the most interesting periods of the spiritual life of Europe - the time of the formation of the Christian religion, or rather, the identification of those reasons and factors that allowed Christianity in a very short time by historical standards to become the dominant spiritual, and then the social force of the ancient world, which is declining.