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The Pagan Christ - Is Blind Faith Killing Christianity? (Paperback)
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The Pagan Christ - Is Blind Faith Killing Christianity? (Paperback)
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For forty years and in nine previous books, 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. What he has discovered will have a profound effect on
the way we think about religion.
Long before the advent of Jesus Christ, the Egyptians and other
peoples believed in the coming of a messiah, a madonna and her
child, a virgin birth, and the incarnation of the spirit in flesh.
The early Christian church accepted these ancient truths as the
very tenets of Christianity but disavowed their origins. What began
as a universal belief system based on myth and allegory became
instead, in the third and fourth centuries A.D., a ritualistic
institution headed by ultraconservative literalists. "The
transcendent meaning of glorious myths and symbols was reduced to
miraculous, quite unbelievable events. The truth that Christ was to
come in man, that the Christ principle was potentially in each of
us, was changed to the exclusivist teaching that the Christ had
come as a man."
Harpur's message is clear: Our blind faith in literalism is killing
Christianity. Only with a return to an inclusive religion will we
gain a true understanding of who we are and who we are intended to
become. Drawing on the work of scholars such as Gerald Massey and
Alvin Boyd Kuhn, Tom Harpur has written a book of rare insight and
power.
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