The Myth of the Resurrection and Other Essays - Couverture souple

Mccabe, Joseph

 
9780879758332: The Myth of the Resurrection and Other Essays
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0879758333 ISBN 13 : 9780879758332
Editeur : G38-Prometheus, 1993

Synopsis

Did Jesus ever live? Was he the Messiah as Christianity has claimed? And what are the true foundations of the Christian religion?
These are the fundamental questions posed by ex-priest Joseph McCabe (1867-1955), a prodigious scholar, translator, and lecturer, who tirelessly promoted scientific inquiry, skepticism, and anticlericalism in works that were exhaustively researched yet accessible to the general reader.
In these three lively, informative, and combative essays, McCabe takes us through the ancient Mediterranean world to show how Christianity appropriated the ceremonies and myths of paganism to elaborate the Resurrection story. McCabe cogently demonstrates that the Jesus of the gospels is not historical at all but a curious amalgam built up after his death. The gospels themselves are completely unreliable as biographies of Jesus. Critically examining all the ancient sources, McCabe reveals a series of shameless distortions by Christian apologists who, he argues, destroyed classical civilization and inaugurated the Dark Ages.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Did Jesus ever live? Was he the Messiah as Christianity has claimed? And what are the true foundations of the Christian religion?

These are the fundamental questions posed by ex-priest Joseph McCabe (1867-1955), a prodigious scholar, translator, and lecturer, who tirelessly promoted scientific inquiry, skepticism, and anticlericalism in works that were exhaustively researched yet accessible to the general reader.

In these three lively, informative, and combative essays, McCabe takes us through the ancient Mediterranean world to show how Christianity appropriated the ceremonies and myths of paganism to elaborate the Resurrection story. McCabe cogently demonstrates that the Jesus of the gospels is not historical at all but a curious amalgam built up after his death. The gospels themselves are completely unreliable as biographies of Jesus. Critically examining all the ancient sources, McCabe reveals a series of shameless distortions by Christian apologists who, he argues, destroyed classical civilization and inaugurated the Dark Ages.

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Éditeur
G38-Prometheus
Date d'édition
1993
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0879758333
ISBN 13 
9780879758332
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
169
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