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The Pagan Christ: Recovering the Lost Light
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Tom Harpur. |
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Walker |
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hardcover
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| ISBN |
0802714498 |
| Pages/Publication Date |
246/2004 |
| Daedalus Item Code |
70087 |
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| Description |
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Scholar and religious commentator Tom Harpur, a former Anglican priest and the author of For Christ's Sake and Life After Death here offers a radical unearthing and examination of the origins of Christianity. Long before the advent of Christ, Egyptians and other peoples believed in a messiah, a virgin birth, and the incarnation of the spirit in flesh. Harpur argues that the early Christian church obscured its pagan origins, and transformed a universal belief system of myth and allegory into a ritualistic institution based on literal interpretations of those symbols—in other words, Christ himself was an invention of the church. "In this passionate hymn to Christ universal, rather than demythologizing Jesus as so many scholars do, Tom Harpur remythologizes Christ. He identifies the Christian mythos with universal themes drawn, in particular, from Egyptian wisdom, not to debunk Christian truth but to rekindle it with ancient fire."—Forrest Church
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