Read Books Online and Download eBooks, EPub, PDF, Mobi, Kindle, Text Full Free.
The Artificiality Of Christianity
Download The Artificiality Of Christianity full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online The Artificiality Of Christianity ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Book Synopsis The Artificiality of Christianity by : M. B. Pranger
Download or read book The Artificiality of Christianity written by M. B. Pranger and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Artificiality of Christianity, the author's primary goal is to distill from monastic literature a poetical tool that can be used to decipher the literary structure of religious texts; a secondary goal is to show the centrality of monasticism to the specific experiences of Christian reading.
Author :Mammadov, Jabbar Manaf oglu Publisher :USA, Washington, “THE EAST: Ancient & Modern” ISBN 13 : Total Pages :124 pages Book Rating :4./5 ( download)
Book Synopsis CHRISTIANITY IS AN ARTIFICIAL RELIGION DEVELOPED IN THE LABORATORIES OF ROME by : Mammadov, Jabbar Manaf oglu
Download or read book CHRISTIANITY IS AN ARTIFICIAL RELIGION DEVELOPED IN THE LABORATORIES OF ROME written by Mammadov, Jabbar Manaf oglu and published by USA, Washington, “THE EAST: Ancient & Modern”. This book was released on 2023-01-23 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book claims that Christianity was a project of Rome, and was invented in its laboratories - like Qumran. Under the Achaemenids and even earlier in the entire Middle East (up to India) there lived Arameans, half of whom professed Judaism, or were to some extent influenced by the Bible. In order to split their front and turn this force of theirs against themselves, Rome organized secret centers for the study of the Hebrew Bible in different parts of the empire, where the predictions of the former Jewish prophets were analyzed. The remains of some of these centers are found today on the coast of the Dead Sea, for example at Qumran, Mossad, etc. In these laboratories ("think tanks"), the image of a new preacher ("teacher of righteousness") named Jesus of Nazareth was fabricated. Using the method of adjusting events and biography to the prophecies of the Hebrew prophets, Roman political technologists came up with a biography, demeanor, and texts of sermons for this fictional character - corresponding to the predictions. After the harsh suppression of the Jews during the "First Jewish War" (66-77), Rome was in dire need of agents of influence in order to curb the aggression of the people and reconcile them with defeat. It is at this stage that the image of the hitherto unknown Jesus enters the historical arena. This fictional "Jewish" character "called" "his" people to humility, patience, calmness, obedience to Rome. He offered not to blame Rome for anything, and to look for the roots of all troubles in himself, and in the Jewish Bible (“Christian pacifism” and “Christian anti-Semitism”). All the power of the propaganda machine of Rome was connected to the promotion of "his" ideas in the Middle East. It was at this time (after the “First Jewish War”) that the entire Middle East was enveloped in a boom of missionaries (in the guise of prostitutes, merchants, merchants, artisans, travelers, teachers, mentors, “apostles”, philanthropists, etc. agents of influence) propagating ideas this fictitious "prophet". As the ideas of Christianity spread, a split and confrontation began to grow in the Jewish community, which the Roman administrative bodies tried to do. Guided by its standard policy of "Divide and Conquer!", Rome used these methods to oppose different layers of the Aramaean-Jewish society, weakened and very easily conquered the entire Middle East and the Black Sea region. Before the final rooting of a new artificial religion (Christianity) in the Middle East and the Black Sea region, Rome carefully camouflaged its participation in its formation so as not to extradite its agents abroad and not disclose their source of funding. It is worth emphasizing that, being a Muslim, the author does not belong to the Jewish religion. In this book, he approaches the problem from a purely scientific point of view, and does not pursue any religious or ethno-political goal. Sometimes the author's pronounced anti-Roman inclination is connected with the cultural role of Rome in history, due to which the entire pre-Roman history, culture, science of the Middle East and Europe - created over several thousand years, was wiped off the face of the Earth.
Book Synopsis The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Religion and Social Justice by : Michael D. Palmer
Download or read book The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Religion and Social Justice written by Michael D. Palmer and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Religion and Social Justice brings together a team of distinguished scholars to provide a comprehensive and comparative account of social justice in the major religious traditions. The first publication to offer a comparative study of social justice for each of the major world religions, exploring viewpoints within Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Confucianism Offers a unique and enlightening volume for those studying religion and social justice - a crucially important subject within the history of religion, and a significant area of academic study in the field Brings together the beliefs of individual traditions in a comprehensive, explanatory, and informative style All essays are newly-commissioned and written by eminent scholars in the field Benefits from a distinctive four-part organization, with sections on major religions; religious movements and themes; indigenous people; and issues of social justice, from colonialism to civil rights, and AIDS through to environmental concerns
Book Synopsis Gnostic Truth and Christian Heresy by : A. H. B. Logan
Download or read book Gnostic Truth and Christian Heresy written by A. H. B. Logan and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Matter of Voice by : Karmen MacKendrick
Download or read book The Matter of Voice written by Karmen MacKendrick and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2016-05-02 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophers for millennia have tried to silence the physical musicality of voice in favor of the purity of ideas without matter, souls without bodies. Nevertheless, voices resonate among bodies, among texts, and across denotation and sound; they are singular, as unique as fingerprints, but irreducibly collective too. They are material, somatic, and musical. But voices are also meaningful—they give body to concepts that cannot exist in abstractions, essential to sense yet in excess of it. They can be neither reduced to neurology nor silenced in abstraction. They complicate the logos of the beginning and emphasize the enfleshing of all words. Through explorations of theology and philosophy, pedagogy, translation, and semiotics, all interwoven with song, The Matter of Voice works toward reintegrating our thinking about both speaking and authorial voice as fleshy combinings of meaning and music.
Book Synopsis The Foundations of the Christian Faith by : Charles Wesley Rishell
Download or read book The Foundations of the Christian Faith written by Charles Wesley Rishell and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Christian Mysticism by : Amy Hollywood
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Christian Mysticism written by Amy Hollywood and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-17 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to Christian Mysticism is a multi-authored interdisciplinary guide to the study of Christian mysticism, with an emphasis on the 3rd through the 17th centuries. Written by leading authorities and younger scholars from a range of disciplines, the volume both provides a clear introduction to the Christian mystical life and articulates a bold new approach to the study of mysticism.
Download or read book Anthropology and Authority written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-06-08 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume on anthropology and authority in the writings of Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) offers its reader nineteen timely discussions of two fundamental categories pertaining to the literary, philosophical, and theological production of this prominent 19th century Danish thinker, whose vast influence upon 20th century intellectual life continues to grow as the new millennium approaches. The volume's nineteen contributors - from Canada, Denmark, Great Britain, Holland, Hungary, Italy, and the United States - inquire into such complex problematics in Kierkegaard's oeuvre as the interrelationship between the human, the divine, and the spiritual; between the secular and the Christian; between human and Christian love; between state and church institutions and the single individual of faith; and between this individual's concern for quality in civic and religious life and the quantitative forces of modern society's masses and crowds. Special attention is given to the indisputable authority of God, Christ, and the apostles as opposed to the debatable authority, or non-authority, of the author. Of particular interest is the nexus between Kierkegaard's existential and religious concerns, on the one hand, and his intricate textual conceptions, multifarious poetic strategies, and various means of pseudonymous and indirect communication, on the other. Between the covers of Anthropology and Authority some chapters seek to refine received knowledge of Kierkegaard in such disciplines as theology and moral philosophy. Conversely, other chapters submit rather postmodern critiques of the author's stylistic and rhetorical devices. A summary assessment of the nineteen contributions would fail to recognize this considerable methodological and theoretical diversity. Instead, the reader's access to the smorgasbord of insights has been facilitated by an introduction in which one of the American editors briefly outline the individual contributions on a general historical and intellectual background. Altogether, the probing insights of Anthropology and Authority go to the core of Søren Kierkegaard's authorship. Individual chapters either update previous responses to the many challenges presented by this work, or the chapters face new challenges and/or present critical challenges on their own.
Book Synopsis Religious Conversion in Early Modern English Drama by : Lieke Stelling
Download or read book Religious Conversion in Early Modern English Drama written by Lieke Stelling and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few subjects of the English stage have proved more alluring and enduring than religious conversion. The emergence of the Elizabethan theatre marked a profound shift in the way in which conversion was presented. If medieval drama had encouraged conversion without reservation, early Elizabethan plays started to question it. Considering over forty canonical and lesser known works, this study argues that more so than any other medium, early modern drama engaged with the question of the possibility of undergoing a radical transformation in faith and presented the period's understanding of it as fundamentally unsettled. Offering the first cross-religious exploration of conversion in early modern English drama, and presenting a new reading of William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello, Lieke Stelling reveals telling patterns in the stage's treatment of conversion and religious identity.
Book Synopsis A History of Christianity in Africa by : Elizabeth Isichei
Download or read book A History of Christianity in Africa written by Elizabeth Isichei and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1995-02-22 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unprecedented work is the first one-volume study of the history of Christianity in Africa. Written by Elizabeth Isichei, a leading scholar in this field, A History of Christianity in Africa examines the origins and development of Christianity in Africa from the early story of Egyptian Christianity to the spectacular growth, vitality, and diversity of the churches in Africa today. Isichei opens with the brilliance of Christianity in Africa in antiquity and shows how Christian Egypt and North Africa produced some of the most influential intellects of the time. She then discusses the churches founded in the wake of early contacts with Europe, from the late fifteenth century on, and the unbroken Christian witness of Coptic Egypt and of Ethiopia. Isichei also examines the different types of Christianity in modern Africa and shows how social factors have influenced its development and expression. With the explosive growth of Christianity now taking place in Africa and the increasingly recognized significance of African Christianity, this much-needed book fills the void in scholarly works on that continent's Christian past, also foreshadowing Christian Africa's influential future.
Book Synopsis Christianity in the Second Century by : James Carleton Paget
Download or read book Christianity in the Second Century written by James Carleton Paget and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christianity in the Second Century shows how academic study on this critical period of Christian development has undergone substantial change over the last thirty years. The second century is often considered to be a time during which the Christian church moved relentlessly towards forms of institutionalisation and consolidated itself against so-called heretics. However, new perspectives have been brought within recent scholarship as the period has attracted interest from a variety of disciplines, including not only early Christian studies but also ancient Judaism and the wider world of the early imperial scholarship. This book seeks to reflect this changed scholarly landscape, and with contributions from key figures in these recent re-evaluations, it aims to enrich and stimulate further discussion.
Book Synopsis The Congregationalist and Christian World by :
Download or read book The Congregationalist and Christian World written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Ideology of Religious Studies by : Timothy Fitzgerald
Download or read book The Ideology of Religious Studies written by Timothy Fitzgerald and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-10-16 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years there has been an intensifying debate within the religious studies community about the validity of religion as an analytical category. In this book Fitzgerald sides with those who argue that the concept of religion itself should be abandoned. On the basis of his own research in India and Japan, and through a detailed analysis of the use of religion in a wide range of scholarly texts, the author maintains that the comparative study of religion is really a form of liberal ecumenical theology. By pretending to be a science, religion significantly distorts socio-cultural analysis. He suggest, however, that religious studies can be re-represented in a way which opens up new and productive theoretical connections with anthropology and cultural and literary studies.
Book Synopsis Religion, Modernity, and the Global Afterlives of Colonialism by : Atalia Omer
Download or read book Religion, Modernity, and the Global Afterlives of Colonialism written by Atalia Omer and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2024-09-15 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion, Modernity, and the Global Afterlives of Colonialism examines the tenacious, lingering impact of European colonial ideology on religion and politics around the world. Even though the formal structures of colonialism have crumbled, with a few notable exceptions, European colonial ideology continues to operate across the globe, resulting in limited, nationalistic conceptualizations of religion and politics. Religion, Modernity, and the Global Afterlives of Colonialism shows convincingly that not only has colonialism had a devastating impact on the colonized, but its reach has turned inward to erode the colonizer’s own social and political systems. By examining the colonial violence constitutive of liberal political ideology, the continued oppression of Muslims in Europe in the name of security, and the way neoliberal economics bends religious hermeneutics to its will, the authors of Religion, Modernity, and the Global Afterlives of Colonialism call attention to the threats that face our world today. They also point to potential sites of hope—for example, the work of a priest in the Balkans who seeks to build solidarity across religious differences; groups in Africa who are constructing decolonial religious imaginaries; and the Islamo-futurism of Dune, which haltingly imagines a form of modernity beyond the West. Contributors: Atalia Omer, Joshua Lupo, Santiago Slabodsky, Nadia Fadil, S. Sayyid, Luca Mavelli, Edmund Frettingham, Cecelia Lynch, Slavica Jakelić, and Gil Anidjar
Book Synopsis The Spread of Christianity in the First Four Centuries by : William V. Harris
Download or read book The Spread of Christianity in the First Four Centuries written by William V. Harris and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Spread of Christianity in the First Four Centuries: Essays in Explanation attempts to show how contemporary historical scholarship, or rather a selection of its exponents, views the perennial question why a new religion, indeed a new kind of religion, succeeded in subverting the other religions of the Roman Empire in the first three centuries and in the generations immediately following the ‘conversion’ of the usurper Constantine in 312.
Book Synopsis The God of Israel and Christian Theology by : R. Kendall Soulen
Download or read book The God of Israel and Christian Theology written by R. Kendall Soulen and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With acknowledgment that Christian theology contributed to the persecution and genocide of Jews comes a dilemma: how to excise the cancer without killing the patient? Kendall Soulen shows how important Christian assertions-the uniqueness of Jesus, the Christian covenant, the finality of salvation in Christ-have been formulated in destructive, supersessionist ways not only in the classical period (Justin Martyr, Irenaeus) and early modernity (Kant and Schleiermacher) but even contemporary theology (Barth and Rahner). Along with this first full-scale critique of Christian supersessionism, Soulen's own constructive proposal regraps the narrative unity of Christian identity and the canon through an original and important insight into the divine-human covenant, the election of Israel, and the meaning of history.
Book Synopsis Medieval Christianity by : Daniel E. Bornstein
Download or read book Medieval Christianity written by Daniel E. Bornstein and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
