The Pagan Christ: Is Blind Faith Killing Christianity?Allen & Unwin, 2005 M03 1 - 244 pages A radical, ground-breaking examination of the role of ancient myth in the origins of Christianity, challenging the idea of the Gospels as historical truth - it will change the way many think about religion, faith, history, myth and belief. |
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... wisdom it had inherited from so many ancient sources , the Church took a literalist , popularized , historical approach to sublime truth . What was preserved in the amber of allegory , it misrepresented as plodding fact . The ...
... wisdom it had inherited from so many ancient sources , the Church took a literalist , popularized , historical approach to sublime truth . What was preserved in the amber of allegory , it misrepresented as plodding fact . The ...
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... wisdom was really all about and where religion , especially Christianity , should be going today . I have a signed first edition of this book on my desk as I write this . Printed on the title page are the words " This book will be to ...
... wisdom was really all about and where religion , especially Christianity , should be going today . I have a signed first edition of this book on my desk as I write this . Printed on the title page are the words " This book will be to ...
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... wisdom , with their cryp- tic message utterly lost , were brought forth to the world by parties of ignorant zealots as a new body of truth . " Only by fully acknowl- edging and regaining its parenthood in that sublime Pagan source will ...
... wisdom , with their cryp- tic message utterly lost , were brought forth to the world by parties of ignorant zealots as a new body of truth . " Only by fully acknowl- edging and regaining its parenthood in that sublime Pagan source will ...
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... wisdom . The near- universal belief in a glorious destiny beyond the grave will be grounded once and for all in something more solid than a merely pious or emotion - based faith . Belief in the Christ within will be established as the ...
... wisdom . The near- universal belief in a glorious destiny beyond the grave will be grounded once and for all in something more solid than a merely pious or emotion - based faith . Belief in the Christ within will be established as the ...
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... wisdom from profanation by the vulgar or the malicious . There was a determination in the earliest circles of the very wise to pre- vent the special spiritual knowledge , or gnosis , from falling into unworthy hands , those who would ...
... wisdom from profanation by the vulgar or the malicious . There was a determination in the earliest circles of the very wise to pre- vent the special spiritual knowledge , or gnosis , from falling into unworthy hands , those who would ...
Contents
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Where It All Began | 27 |
How a Spiritual | 49 |
It Was All Written Beforein Egypt | 67 |
Convincing the Sceptics | 91 |
Where It All Began | 157 |
Cosmic Christianity | 177 |
Mythology Religion and Ancient Egypt | 199 |
More Similarities between | 205 |
Two Strange Passages 21 I | 211 |
Notes | 219 |
Bibliography | 229 |
Index | 237 |
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Page 128 - Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha. 2 (It was that Mary which anointed the LORD with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.) 3 Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.
Page 149 - And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain, from the top to the bottom ; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent...
Page 171 - And, as he journeyed, he came near Damascus, and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven. And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
Page 74 - Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: for I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in; I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me.
Page 211 - And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks; and in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.