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Christianity - Endangered or Extinct? a People's History of Christianity in the Mode of Howard Zinn's a People's History of the Unite (Paperback)
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Christianity - Endangered or Extinct? a People's History of Christianity in the Mode of Howard Zinn's a People's History of the Unite (Paperback)
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Christianity Endangered or Extinct? A People's History of
Christianity is a blockbuster for all Christians in the 21st
Century. Volume I: The Gathering Storm is about the origins of a
great divide that began in 100 - 430 CE, during Christianity's
formative stages, between Jesus of Nazareth's teachings and the
Christianity we have inherited. Cragun and Kessler outline how the
so-called "Fathers of the Church" took over the community of Jesus,
destroyed its foundations, and built their own church edifice,
which has been transmitted to us. Step by step, the authors utilize
the very words of these philosophers to show how the movement of
Jesus became, in reality, the church of philosophers and the Roman
Empire. In their zeal to establish themselves as the inheritors of
Christ's message, they coined a new word, "heretic," and pinned it
on those who opposed them, gradually stifling dissent. Though much
of modern scholarship blames Constantine for the corruption of the
Church, Cragun and Kessler document that the corruption was a
gradual process in which Platonic philosophy, power, and prestige
gradually entombed the message Jesus actually gave us. They
demonstrate that this religion was carefully honed to be acceptable
to emperors, rulers and the elite - replacing Christ's message of
love, egalitarianism, communalism, pacifism, and servant
leadership. Cragun and Kessler have written a true People's History
of Christianity, in the tradition of Howard Zinn's People's History
of the United States. Within this perspective, they received help
in their analysis from such notables as Elizabeth Schussler
Fiorenza and Michael Foucault and others. Concerned that much of
what parades itself as the "people's history" of Christianity today
fails to do adequate class, economic, and sociological analysis.
The authors have attempted to remedy this by providing more
comprehensive scholarly research.
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