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Author : Adeleke Dirisu Ajijola
Publisher : Adam Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9788174350107
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book The Myth of the Cross written by Adeleke Dirisu Ajijola and published by Adam Publishers. This book was released on 1994 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adeleke Dirisu Ajijola
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780686639077
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (39 download)
Download or read book The Myth of the Cross written by Adeleke Dirisu Ajijola and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A. D. Ajijola
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780686639077
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Myth of the Cross written by A. D. Ajijola and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tony Sunderland
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (941 download)
Download or read book The Obelisk and the Cross written by Tony Sunderland and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-05-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why does an ancient Egyptian obelisk celebrating the god of the sun stand in the centre of St Peter's Square in Vatican City, the home of the Pope and the heartland of Catholicism? Taking this mysterious fact as his starting point, Tony Sunderland examines the history of religious belief in an attempt to understand how what has happened in the past continues to exert a ghostly influence in the present. Going right back to the voluptuous mother goddess figures of our ancestors, the pantheons of the Greeks and Romans, the wisdom of the Hebrew Bible, the birth of Christ, the radical heresies of the Gnostics and the Esoterics, the consolidation of a Catholic orthodoxy and the Protestant revolution, Sunderland traces a history of ideas that shines a light on how and why belief systems are constructed and the role they play in providing meaning and order in a dangerous, volatile world. Over this long and fascinating history the figure of the first monotheist, the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten, casts his long shadow. "Where did we come from? Why are we here? What happens when we die?" Many alternative explanations of how 'things came to be' in the Western world have either been ignored or suppressed by dominant and overpowering narratives of what can be termed as consensus history. This book blends the orthodox view of Western history with alternative interpretations and propositions of historical events. The metaphors of the obelisk and the cross have been used to illustrate the interdependent relationship between the 'other' and the 'orthodox' respectively. One cannot dominate the other; rather they can only be defined through an understanding of what they are not. Only then, can bridges be made to create a vision of 'what could be'. "The bleeding of different belief systems into each other is a very important issue to understand, especially in our rather divided modern world in which religions have become enemies all over again."
Author : Robin M. Jensen
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674088808
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Cross written by Robin M. Jensen and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-17 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cross stirs intense feelings among Christians as well as non-Christians. Robin Jensen takes readers on an intellectual and spiritual journey through the two-thousand-year evolution of the cross as an idea and an artifact, illuminating the controversies—along with the forms of devotion—this central symbol of Christianity inspires. Jesus’s death on the cross posed a dilemma for Saint Paul and the early Church fathers. Crucifixion was a humiliating form of execution reserved for slaves and criminals. How could their messiah and savior have been subjected to such an ignominious death? Wrestling with this paradox, they reimagined the cross as a triumphant expression of Christ’s sacrificial love and miraculous resurrection. Over time, the symbol’s transformation raised myriad doctrinal questions, particularly about the crucifix—the cross with the figure of Christ—and whether it should emphasize Jesus’s suffering or his glorification. How should Jesus’s body be depicted: alive or dead, naked or dressed? Should it be shown at all? Jensen’s wide-ranging study focuses on the cross in painting and literature, the quest for the “true cross” in Jerusalem, and the symbol’s role in conflicts from the Crusades to wars of colonial conquest. The Cross also reveals how Jews and Muslims viewed the most sacred of all Christian emblems and explains its role in public life in the West today.
Author : Mangasar Mugurditch Mangasarian
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Truth about Jesus written by Mangasar Mugurditch Mangasarian and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gregory A. Boyd
Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
ISBN 13 : 031056591X
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (15 download)
Download or read book The Myth of a Christian Nation written by Gregory A. Boyd and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2009-05-18 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The church was established to serve the world with Christ-like love, not to rule the world. It is called to look like a corporate Jesus, dying on the cross for those who crucified him, not a religious version of Caesar. It is called to manifest the kingdom of the cross in contrast to the kingdom of the sword. Whenever the church has succeeded in gaining what most American evangelicals are now trying to get – political power – it has been disastrous both for the church and the culture. Whenever the church picks up the sword, it lays down the cross. The present activity of the religious right is destroying the heart and soul of the evangelical church and destroying its unique witness to the world. The church is to have a political voice, but we are to have it the way Jesus had it: by manifesting an alternative to the political, “power over,” way of doing life. We are to transform the world by being willing to suffer for others – exercising “power under,” not by getting our way in society – exercising “power over.”
Author : John M. John M. Allegro
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781505452808
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (528 download)
Download or read book The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross written by John M. John M. Allegro and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-12-10 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first published statement of the fruits of some years' work of a largely philological nature. It presents a new appreciation of the relationship of the languages of the ancient world and the implication of this advance for our understanding of the Bible and of the origins of Christianity.
Author : Frank Moore CROSS
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674030087
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic written by Frank Moore CROSS and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation The essays contained in this book are preliminary studies directed toward a new synthesis of the history of the religion of Israel. Each study is addressed to a special and, in the authors view, unsolved problem in the description of Israel's religious development.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 734 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Bible Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chrissi Hart
Publisher : Xist Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1623955300
Total Pages : 17 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (239 download)
Download or read book The Legend of the Cross written by Chrissi Hart and published by Xist Publishing. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Garden of Eden to Golgotha—the myth retold for young audiences. Discover the legend of the tree that would become the Cross of Christ. Grown from seeds gifted from the heavens, a magnificent tree participates in ancient history before becoming the crowning symbol of Christianity. With lush illustrations and poetic text, The Legend of the Cross adds a new dimension to the story of Easter and is sure to become a Christian classic for children everywhere.
Author : Andrew L. Seidel
Publisher : Sterling
ISBN 13 : 9781454943914
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (439 download)
Download or read book The Founding Myth written by Andrew L. Seidel and published by Sterling. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was America founded on Judeo-Christian principles? Are the Ten Commandments the basis for American law? In the paperback edition of this critically acclaimed book, a constitutional attorney settles the debate about religion's role in America's founding. In today's contentious political climate, understanding religion's role in American government is more important than ever. Christian nationalists assert that our nation was founded on Judeo-Christian principles, and advocate an agenda based on this popular historical claim. But is this belief true? The Founding Myth answers the question once and for all. Andrew L. Seidel builds his case by comparing the Ten Commandments to the Constitution and contrasting biblical doctrine with America's founding philosophy, showing that the Declaration of Independence contradicts the Bible. Thoroughly researched, this persuasively argued and fascinating book proves that America was not built on the Bible and that Christian nationalism is un-American. Includes a new epilogue reflecting on the role Christian nationalism played in fomenting the January 6, 2021, insurrection in DC and the warnings the nation missed.
Author : Alan Watts
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807013755
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (137 download)
Download or read book Myth and Ritual In Christianity written by Alan Watts and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 1971-06-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Our main object will be to describe one of the most incomparably beautiful myths that has ever flowered from the mind of man, or from the unconscious processes which shape it and which are in some sense more than man.… This is, furthermore, to be a description and not a history of Christian Mythology.… After description, we shall attempt an interpretation of the myth along the general lines of the philosophia perennis, in order to bring out the truly catholic or universal character of the symbols, and to share the delight of discovering a fountain of wisdom in a realm where so many have long ceased to expect anything but a desert of platitudes.” —from the Prologue
Author : James H. Cone
Publisher : Orbis Books
ISBN 13 : 160833001X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (83 download)
Download or read book The Cross and the Lynching Tree written by James H. Cone and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark in the conversation about race and religion in America. "They put him to death by hanging him on a tree." Acts 10:39 The cross and the lynching tree are the two most emotionally charged symbols in the history of the African American community. In this powerful new work, theologian James H. Cone explores these symbols and their interconnection in the history and souls of black folk. Both the cross and the lynching tree represent the worst in human beings and at the same time a thirst for life that refuses to let the worst determine our final meaning. While the lynching tree symbolized white power and "black death," the cross symbolizes divine power and "black life" God overcoming the power of sin and death. For African Americans, the image of Jesus, hung on a tree to die, powerfully grounded their faith that God was with them, even in the suffering of the lynching era. In a work that spans social history, theology, and cultural studies, Cone explores the message of the spirituals and the power of the blues; the passion and of Emmet Till and the engaged vision of Martin Luther King, Jr.; he invokes the spirits of Billie Holliday and Langston Hughes, Fannie Lou Hamer and Ida B. Well, and the witness of black artists, writers, preachers, and fighters for justice. And he remembers the victims, especially the 5,000 who perished during the lynching period. Through their witness he contemplates the greatest challenge of any Christian theology to explain how life can be made meaningful in the face of death and injustice.
Author : G. Ronald Murphy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199948615
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)
Download or read book Tree of Salvation written by G. Ronald Murphy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: G. Ronald Murphy offers an insightful examination of the lasting significance of Yggdrasil in northern Europe, showing that the tree's image persisted not simply through its absorption into descriptions of Christ's crucifix, but through recognition by the newly converted Christians of the truth of their new religion in the images of their older faith.
Author : Herbert Cutner
Publisher : Health Research Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Jesus: God, Man, Or Myth? written by Herbert Cutner and published by Health Research Books. This book was released on 1950 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: Some Preliminary Considerations; Christian Evidences; the Witness of Paul; the Cross; the Mother of God; Jesus and the Witness of the Jews; the Pagan Witnesses; some Sources of the Jesus Myth; Pagan Saviors; Christianity and Allegory;.
Author : Paul E. Kerry
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611470641
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)
Download or read book The Ring and the Cross written by Paul E. Kerry and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conversation, sometimes heated, about the influence of Christianity on the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien has a long history. What has been lacking is a forum for a civilized discussion about the topic, as well as a chronological overview of the major arguments and themes that have engaged scholars about the impact of Christianity on Tolkien's oeuvre, with particular reference to The Lord of the Rings. The Ring and the Cross addresses these two needs through an articulate and authoritative analyses of Tolkien's Roman Catholicism and the role it plays in understanding his writings. The volume's contributors deftly explain the kinds of interpretations put forward and evidence marshaled when arguing for or against religious influence. The Ringand the Cross invites readers to draw their own conclusions about a subject that has fascinated Tolkien enthusiasts since the publication of his masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings.
