Author: Kersey GRAVES
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Languages : en
Pages : 396

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Author: British museum. Dept. of printed books
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Languages : en
Pages : 456

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Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1294

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Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 928

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Author: Kersey Graves
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
ISBN: 1616409916
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 436

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Khrisna of India. Thammuz of Syria. Esus of the Celtic Druids. Mithra of Persia. Quexalcoati of Mexico. All were crucified gods, and all met their fates hundreds of years before Jesus appeared on the scene. In this foundational work of modern atheism, American spiritualist KERSEY GRAVES (1813-1883) breaks the Christ myth down into its component parts and ably demonstrates how the story of Jesus has its roots in the depths of antiquity. Here you'll read about the surprising prevalence throughout global folklore of: . the miraculous and immaculate conception of the gods . stars that point out the time and place of a savior's birth . angels, shepherds, and magi visiting an infant savior . the 25th of December as the universal birth date of gods . saviors who descend into Hell . and much more. This is essential reading for students of comparative mythology and modern freethinkers. Also available from Cosimo: Graves's The Biography of Satan and The Bible of Bible.

Author: Mangasar Mugurditch Mangasarian
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Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Author: William Montgomery Brown
Publisher: Good Press
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226

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This work by William Montgomery Brown, sometimes called "Bad Bishop" Brown, is an attempt to unite communism and Christian teachings and morale. This interesting book caused big waves in its time and led to the deposition of Montgomery Brown for heresy teachings.

Author: Adolf von Harnack
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Category : Church history
Languages : en
Pages : 544

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Author: Alvin Boyd Kuhn
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1789123445
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1048

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Shadow of the Third Century: A Revaluation of Christianity, first published in 1949, begins with the assertions that a true history of Christianity has never before been written and that the roots of the Christian religion lie in earlier religions and philosophies of the ancient world. The author, Alvin Boyd Kuhn, asserts that Christianity as we know it took the form it did due to a degeneration of knowledge rather than to an energization produced by a new release of light and truth into the world. In the ancient world, knowledge was commonly passed down by esoteric traditions, its inner meaning known only to the initiated. The Gospels, according to Kuhn, should therefore be understood as symbolic narratives rather than as history. Sacred scriptures are always written in a language of myth and symbol, and the Christian religion threw away and lost their true meaning when it mistranslated this language into alleged history instead of reading it as spiritual allegory. This literalism necessarily led to a religion antagonistic toward philosophy. Moreover, it produced a religion that failed to recognize its continuity with, and debt to, earlier esoteric schools. As evidence of this, Kuhn finds that many of the gospel stories and sayings have parallels in earlier works, in particular those of Egypt and Greece. The transformation of Jesus’ followers into Pauline Christians drew on these sources. Moreover, the misunderstanding of true Christianity led to the excesses of misguided asceticism. Overall, the book seeks to serve as a “clarion call to the modern world to return to the primitive Christianity which the founder of Christian theology, Augustine, proclaimed had been the true religion of all humanity.” With its many citations from earlier works, Shadow of the Third Century also serves as a bibliographic introduction to alternative histories of Christianity.

Author: Charles Taze Russell
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Category : Jehovah's Witnesses
Languages : en
Pages : 650

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