The pagan Christ : recovering the lost light

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Label

The pagan Christ : recovering the lost light

Title remainder

recovering the lost light

Statement of responsibility

Tom Harpur

Creator

• Harpur, Tom

Subject

• Christianisme -- Relations
• Christianity and other religions -- Egyptian
• Christianity and other religions -- Egyptian
• Egypt
• Egypt -- Religion
• Electronic books
• Historicity of Jesus Christ
• Christianisme -- Origines
• Jesus Christ -- Historicity
• Mythology, Egyptian
• Mythology, Egyptian
• Religion
• Église -- Histoire -- ca 30-600 (Église primitive)
• Jesus Christ

Genre

• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

"For forty years, scholar and religious commentator Tom Harpur has challenged church orthodoxy and guided thousands of readers on subjects as controversial as the true nature of Christ and life after death. Now, in his most radical and groundbreaking work, Harpur digs deep into the origins of Christianity." "Long before the advent of Jesus Christ, the Egyptians and other peoples believed in the coming of a messiah, a virgin birth, a madonna and her child, and the incarnation of the spirit in flesh. While the early Christian church accepted these ancient truths as the very basis of Christianity, it disavowed their origins. What had begun as a universal belief system built on myth and allegory was transformed, by the third and fourth centuries A.D., into a ritualistic institution based on a literal interpretation of myths and symbols. But, as Tom Harpur argues in The Pagan Christ, "to take the Gospels literally as history or biography is to utterly miss their inner spiritual meaning."" "At a time of religious extremism, Tom Harpur reveals the virtue of a cosmic faith based on ancient truths that the modern church has renounced. His message is clear: Our blind faith in literalism is killing Christianity. Only with a return to an inclusive religion where Christ lives within each of us will we gain a true understanding of who we are and who we are intended to become. The Pagan Christ is a book of rare insight and power that will reilluminate the Bible and change the way we think about religion. Book jacket."--Jacket

Cataloging source

TEFOD

Dewey number

232.9/08

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

BT303.2

LC item number

.H366 2004eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography