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The Lost Light: An Interpretation of Ancient Scriptures

Author : Alvin Boyd Kuhn
Publisher : Rare Treasure Editions
ISBN 13 : 1774644185
Total Pages : 940 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (746 download)

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Download or read book The Lost Light: An Interpretation of Ancient Scriptures written by Alvin Boyd Kuhn and published by Rare Treasure Editions. This book was released on 2021-11-09T22:55:00Z with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kuhn contended that the Bible derived its origins from other Pagan religions and that much of Christian history was pre-extant as Egyptian mythology. He also proposed that the Bible was symbolic and did not depict real events, and argued that the leaders of the church started to misinterpret the bible at the end of the third century. These controversial ideas outside of mainstream history and theology are rejected by most pre-eminent scholars, but many including Tom Harpur and John G. Jackson were influenced by the works of Kuhn. Harpur even dedicated his best-selling 2004 book, "The Pagan Christ" to Kuhn, calling him "a man of immense learning and even greater courage" and "one of the single greatest geniuses of the twentieth century" [who] "towers above all others of recent memory in intellect and his understanding of the world's religions."

Lost Light

Author : Alvin Boyd Kuhn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258887513
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Lost Light written by Alvin Boyd Kuhn and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1940 edition.

Who is This King of Glory?

Author : Alvin Boyd Kuhn
Publisher : Book Tree
ISBN 13 : 1585093181
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Who is This King of Glory? written by Alvin Boyd Kuhn and published by Book Tree. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reveals that much of Christianity and its beliefs had originated in ancient Egypt rather than the Middle East. The author presents us with how, where and why many spiritual Egyptian beliefs were adopted into Christian form and accepted as "history", as opposed to being carried over in their original mythological form. Kuhn states, "The gospels are not and never were histories. They are now proven to have been cryptic dramas of the spiritual evolution of humanity and of the history of the human soul in its earthly tabernacle of flesh." For Christianity to be expressed in the way it was first intended, as experienced during the first two centuries of its existence, one must first acknowledge its pagan roots. This is too much of a leap for most people, but they have not read this book. The author reveals how things were altered in the third century by the existing priesthood and why.

Shadow of the Third Century

Author : Alvin Boyd Kuhn
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789123445
Total Pages : 1048 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Shadow of the Third Century written by Alvin Boyd Kuhn and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-13 with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Lost World of Scripture

Author : John H. Walton
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830864989
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book The Lost World of Scripture written by John H. Walton and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers' Choice Awards Honorable Mention Preaching's Preacher's Guide to the Best Bible Reference From John H. Walton, author of the bestselling Lost World of Genesis One, and D. Brent Sandy, author of Plowshares and Pruning Hooks, comes a detailed look at the origins of scriptural authority in ancient oral cultures and how they inform our understanding of the Old and New Testaments today. Stemming from questions about scriptural inerrancy, inspiration and oral transmission of ideas, The Lost World of Scripture examines the process by which the Bible has come to be what it is today. From the reasons why specific words were used to convey certain ideas to how oral tradition impacted the transmission of biblical texts, the authors seek to uncover how these issues might affect our current doctrine on the authority of Scripture. "In this book we are exploring ways God chose to reveal his word in light of discoveries about ancient literary culture," write Walton and Sandy. "Our specific objective is to understand better how both the Old and New Testaments were spoken, written and passed on, especially with an eye to possible implications for the Bible?s inspiration and authority." The books in the Lost World Series follow the pattern set by Bible scholar John H. Walton, bringing a fresh, close reading of the Hebrew text and knowledge of ancient Near Eastern literature to an accessible discussion of the biblical topic at hand using a series of logic-based propositions.

The Encyclopedia of Lost and Rejected Scriptures

Author : Joseph B. Lumpkin
Publisher : Fifth Estate
ISBN 13 : 9781936533558
Total Pages : 826 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (335 download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Lost and Rejected Scriptures written by Joseph B. Lumpkin and published by Fifth Estate. This book was released on 2015 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Lost and Rejected Scriptures: The Pseudepigrapha and Apocrypha - Section One - Lost Scriptures of the Old Testament - First Book of Adam and Eve, Second Book of Adam and Eve, First Book of Enoch, Second Book of Enoch (Secrets of Enoch), Third Book of Enoch (Hebrew Enoch), Jubilees, Jasher - Section Two - Apocalyptic Writings and the End of Days - Apocalypse of Abraham, Apocalypse of Thomas, 2 Baruch, War Scroll (Sons of Dark vs. Sons of Light) - Section Three - Lost Scriptures of the New Testament - Gospel of Philip, Gospel of Mary Magdalene, Apocryphon of John, Gospel of Thomas, Gospel of Judas, Acts Chapter 29 - - Section Four - The Life and Times of Jesus - Infancy Gospel of James, Infancy Gospel of Thomas, Life of Joseph The Carpenter, Letters of Pilate, Life of Saint Issaa - Section Five - The Apocrypha - 1 Esdras, 2 Esdras, 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees, 3 Maccabees, 4 Maccabees, Letter (Epistle) of Jeremiah, The Prayer of Azariah, 1 Baruch, Prayer of Manasseh (Manassas), Bel and the Dragon, Wisdom of Sirach, Wisdom of Solomon, Additions to Esther, Tobit, Judith, Susanna, Psalm 151, 1 Clements, Shepherd of Hermas, The Didache

The Lost Key to the Scriptures

Author : Alvin Boyd Kuhn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781684225231
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book The Lost Key to the Scriptures written by Alvin Boyd Kuhn and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2021 Reprint of the First Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. In this little-known essay Kuhn analyses Christian orthodoxy and proposes that many falsehoods have crept into mainstream Christianity over the centuries. Kuhn compares Christian orthodoxy with the Greek philosophers and illustrates the similarities and differences them. According to the author, much of the meaning of crucial Christian terminology derives from Greek Platonic, Pythagorean, Orphic and Neo-Platonic philosophies, and behind these the more ancient wisdom-knowledge of the Egyptians, who bore the bright torch of religious light from remote times.

The Root of All Religion

Author : Alvin Boyd Kuhn
Publisher : Rare Treasure Editions
ISBN 13 : 1774644177
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (746 download)

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Download or read book The Root of All Religion written by Alvin Boyd Kuhn and published by Rare Treasure Editions. This book was released on 2021-11-09T22:49:00Z with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kuhn contended that the Bible derived its origins from other Pagan religions and that much of Christian history was pre-extant as Egyptian mythology. He also proposed that the Bible was symbolic and did not depict real events and argued that the leaders of the church started to misinterpret the Bible at the end of the third century. These assertions are hotly debated by most scholarship. But whether or not the reader agrees with this assessment in whole or in part, this book is nevertheless a provocatively good read and regarded by Kuhn fans as a well-written, concise, and interesting study attempting to explore how and why religion came about.

Esoteric Structure of the Alphabet

Author : Alvin Boyd Kuhn
Publisher : Health Research Books
ISBN 13 : 9780787305161
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Esoteric Structure of the Alphabet written by Alvin Boyd Kuhn and published by Health Research Books. This book was released on 1996-09 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reconstructing the hidden outlines of meaning from in the alphabet.

Easter

Author : Alvin B. Kuhn
Publisher : Health Research Books
ISBN 13 : 9780787313265
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Easter written by Alvin B. Kuhn and published by Health Research Books. This book was released on 1996-09 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Easter is the ceremonial that crowns all the other religious festivals of the year with ist springtime halo of resurrected life. it is to dramatize the final end in victory of man's long struggle through the inferior kingdoms of matter and bodily incarn.

Biblical Interpretation - Past and Present

Author : G. Bray
Publisher : Apollos
ISBN 13 : 9780851114750
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Biblical Interpretation - Past and Present written by G. Bray and published by Apollos. This book was released on 1990-12-31 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A textbook on the history of biblical interpretation that covers the fundamentals and then examines differences across historical periods. Divides the history of biblical interpretation into the period from the ancient church to the Reformation; the rise of historical-critical interpretation from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries; and current trends that offer alternatives to dominant schools of criticism.

The Tree of Knowledge

Author : Alvin Boyd Kuhn
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781463523466
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (234 download)

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Download or read book The Tree of Knowledge written by Alvin Boyd Kuhn and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Creation in Genesis contains the item that represents mankind as having been condemned to eternal death as the consequence of our first parents' disobedience to God's command not to eat of the fruit of the tree of life and knowledge which is in the midst of the Garden of Eden. Here we are confronted with another of those features of the great allegorical drama of creation that has more than baffled the best efforts of theologians and scholars for two millennia. It provides another instance and example of the pitiful manner in which stupid attempt to interpret the Bible literally and factually has made of scholarship and Bible exegesis a laughing-stock and a mockery of sense and sanity for lo! these many centuries of Christian religionism. The story of how allegedly learned savants in the field of religious study have been misled and duped by the subterfuges of ancient methodology in the writing of sacred Scripture is one of the most astounding, indeed well-nigh incredible, narratives that, unfortunately, must now be told. - Alvin Boyd Kuhn

Ancient Egypt

Author : Stephen E. Thompson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Egypt written by Stephen E. Thompson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-11-08 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprising a unique collection of primary sources, this book critically examines several topics relating to ancient Egypt that are of high interest to readers but about which misconceptions abound. With its pyramids, mummies, and sphinxes, ancient Egypt has fascinated us for centuries. It has been the setting of many films and novels, figuring prominently in popular culture. Much of what the average reader believes about this civilization, however, is mistaken. Through a unique collection of primary source documents, this book critically examines several topics related to ancient Egypt and about which misconceptions abound. Primary sources, many in new translations by the author, are drawn from ancient Egyptian, classical Greek and Roman, Muslim, early Christian, and modern European documents. These sources shed light on popular misconceptions. Such topics include the divinity of the pharaoh, the role of animals in ancient Egyptian religion, the purpose of the Egyptian pyramids, the use of slave labor, the Egyptian hieroglyphic writing system, the role of Cleopatra in the defeat of Marc Antony and the fall of the Roman Republic, and the influence of Egyptian religion on the development of early Christianity. By studying these documents, users will be able to develop their skills interpreting and evaluating primary sources.

Revelation

Author :
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 0857861018
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (578 download)

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Download or read book Revelation written by and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final book of the Bible, Revelation prophesies the ultimate judgement of mankind in a series of allegorical visions, grisly images and numerological predictions. According to these, empires will fall, the "Beast" will be destroyed and Christ will rule a new Jerusalem. With an introduction by Will Self.

How the Bible Actually Works

Author : Peter Enns
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062686771
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (626 download)

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Download or read book How the Bible Actually Works written by Peter Enns and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Controversial evangelical Bible scholar, popular blogger and podcast host of The Bible for Normal People, and author of The Bible Tells Me So and The Sin of Certainty explains that the Bible is not an instruction manual or rule book but a powerful learning tool that nurtures our spiritual growth by refusing to provide us with easy answers but instead forces us to acquire wisdom. For many Christians, the Bible is a how-to manual filled with literal truths about belief that must be strictly followed. But the Bible is not static, Peter Enns argues. It does not hold easy answers to the perplexing questions and issues that confront us in our daily lives. Rather, the Bible is a dynamic instrument for study that not only offers an abundance of insights but provokes us to find our own answers to spiritual questions, cultivating God’s wisdom within us. “The Bible becomes a confusing mess when we expect it to function as a rulebook for faith. But when we allow the Bible to determine our expectations, we see that Wisdom, not answers, is the Bible’s true subject matter,” writes Enns. This distinction, he points out, is important because when we come to the Bible expecting it to be a textbook intended by God to give us unwavering certainty about our faith, we are actually creating problems for ourselves. The Bible, in other words, really isn’t the problem; having the wrong expectation is what interferes with our reading. Rather than considering the Bible as an ancient book weighed down with problems, flaws, and contradictions that must be defended by modern readers, Enns offers a vision of the holy scriptures as an inspired and empowering resource to help us better understand how to live as a person of faith today. How the Bible Actually Works makes clear that there is no one right way to read the Bible. Moving us beyond the damaging idea that “being right” is the most important measure of faith, Enns’s freeing approach to Bible study helps us to instead focus on pursuing enlightenment and building our relationship with God—which is exactly what the Bible was designed to do.

The Lost World of Genesis One

Author : John H. Walton
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830861491
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book The Lost World of Genesis One written by John H. Walton and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2010-07-21 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this astute mix of cultural critique and biblical studies, John H. Walton presents and defends twenty propositions supporting a literary and theological understanding of Genesis 1 within the context of the ancient Near Eastern world and unpacks its implications for our modern scientific understanding of origins. Ideal for students, professors, pastors and lay readers with an interest in the intelligent design controversy and creation-evolution debates, Walton's thoughtful analysis unpacks seldom appreciated aspects of the biblical text and sets Bible-believing scientists free to investigate the question of origins. The books in the Lost World Series follow the pattern set by Bible scholar John H. Walton, bringing a fresh, close reading of the Hebrew text and knowledge of ancient Near Eastern literature to an accessible discussion of the biblical topic at hand using a series of logic-based propositions.

Sex As Symbol

Author : Ph. D. Alvin Kuhn
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1596056150
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Sex As Symbol written by Ph. D. Alvin Kuhn and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a fell quality to the mating urge that gives it the force of a natural and unimpeachable authority, which appears for a time to sweep away every obstacle and override the obstructing power of every consideration, whether of advantage or injury. It carries a virtual cosmic sanction with it. -from "Love and Hate" How does gender and the sex drive manifest itself across human cultures? How is the dual nature of humanity-male and female, spiritual and physical, animal and divine-expressed in the tangible world? Alvin Boyd Kuhn, a prominent proponent of the early 20th-century doctrine of theosophy, which sought to find the universal truths that underlie all human religions, here explores the hidden connections across cultures that unify rites and customs found around the globe: circumcision, the secondary status of women, myths about communion with deities, and more. In fluid prose that approaches a stream-of-consciousness reverie, this treatise seeks to uncover a fundamental basis for human ideas about sex, gender, and love. American philosopher and scholar of comparative religion ALVIN BOYD KUHN (1880-1963) is also the author of Theosophy (1930) and The Lost Light (1940).