Download or read book Christening Pagan Mysteries written by Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1981-12-15 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book devoted to investigating the scholarly commonplace that Erasmus’ revival of classical learning defines his evangelical humanism. It acknowledges that it was a feat for him to challenge the obscurantism of late medieval schooling by restoring classical studies. It recognizes that his editions of Greek and Latin authors alone fix his place in the history of scholarship. But the plainest questions about this achievement may still be asked, and the most popular texts freshly interpreted. Was his work only the expression in the ‘idiom of the Renaissance’ or a perennial Christian humanism? Or did he advance on it theoretically as well as practically? Did Erasmus contribute conceptually to the interrogation of pagan wisdom with the Christian economy? Christening Pagan Mysteries proposes that he did. Although doctrinal issues involved, this inquiry is not systematically theological. Erasmus wrote no treatise on the subject that might be so explored. A rhetorical approach, complementary to his own method, discloses his evangelical humanism through the analysis of three significant texts. The seminal dialogue Antibarbari provides the conceptual key in one of the most important humanist declarations in the history of Christian thought to the Renaissance. The Christocentric conviction it voices is then discerned through new interpretations of two other texts which christen pagan mysteries in original and important ways: the Moria and the final colloquy, ‘Epicureus,’ in which a pagan goddess and a pagan philosopher are gathered to Christ.
Download or read book Pagan and Christian Mysteries written by Joseph Campbell and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mysteries Pagan and Christian written by Samuel Cheetham and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Jesus Mysteries written by Timothy Freke and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2001-12-18 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the cutting edge of modern scholarship, this astonishing book completely undermines the traditional history of Christianity that has been perpetuated for centuries by the Church and presents overwhelming evidence that the Jesus of the New Testament is a mythical figure. “Whether you conclude that this book is the most alarming heresy of the millennium or the mother of all revelations, The Jesus Mysteries deserves to be read.” —Fort Worth Star-Telegram Far from being eyewitness accounts, as is traditionally held, the Gospels are actually Jewish adaptations of ancient Pagan myths of the dying and resurrecting godman Osiris-Dionysus. The supernatural story of Jesus is not the history of a miraculous Messiah but a carefully crafted spiritual allegory designed to guide initiates on a journey of mystical discovery. A little more than a century ago, most people believed that the strange story of Adam and Eve was history; today it is understood to be a myth. Within a few decades, authors Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy argue, we will likewise be amazed that the fabulous story of God incarnate—who was born of a virgin, who turned water into wine, and who rose from the dead—could have been interpreted as anything but a profound parable.
Download or read book Pauline Baptism and the Pagan Mysteries written by Günter Wagner and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pauline Baptism and the pagan mysteries written by Günter Wagner and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pauline Baptism among the Mysteries written by Donghyun Jeong and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-07-04 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph provides an alternative model for looking at the old question about Paul and the mysteries in a new light. Specifically, this study compares rituals—baptism in the Pauline communities and the initiation rituals of the mysteries—through the lens of cultural anthropology and the sociology of religion. Three research questions lead the project: What benefits does each initiation ritual promise its participants? What are the underlying messages or structures that guarantee the efficacy of those rituals? How and to what extent is the initiation ritual connected to the participants’ cognition and ethics beyond initiation itself? Taking those questions as the analytical framework, this study substantiates two points: first, in terms of ritual messages, baptism in the Pauline communities is a ritual analogous to mystery initiation, and second, Paul is an innovative interpreter of ritual who recalibrates the messages of preexisting rituals for his theological and ethical program, seeking to radically extend the implications of initiation to the embodied life of every Christ-believer. Students and scholars of New Testament, early Christianity, classics, and ritual studies will benefit from engaging this volume.
Download or read book A History of the origin of the mysteries and doctrines of Baptism and the Eucharist as introduced into the Church of Rome and the Church of England and their Jewish and heathen origin delineated in profane and ecclesiastical history etc written by John RAWLINGS (Ecclesiastical Writer.) and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Christian Mystery written by Louis Bouyer and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2004-09-10 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scholarly and masterful exploration of the meaning and importance of 'mystery' and 'mysticism' to the Christian revelation, offering a fuller understanding of Christian spirituality down the ages and a firmer grasp of what it means to be a Christian.
Download or read book Pauline Baptism and the Pagan Mysteries the Problem of Hte Pauline Doctrine of Baptism in Romans VI I II in the Light of Its Religio Historical Parallels written by Günter Wagner and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Origin of Paul s Religion written by John Gresham Machen and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Shaping of the Reformed Baptismal Rite in the Sixteenth Century written by Hughes Oliphant Old and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1992-04 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a print on demand book and is therefore non- returnable. This meticulously researched book recounts how the early sixteenth-century Reformers, steering a course between the old Latin rites on the one hand and the Anabaptist movement on the other, developed a baptismal service that they understood to be reformed according to Scripture. Hughes Oliphant Old's study shows the Reformed baptismal rite to be well thought out, pastorally sensitive, and theologically profound.
Download or read book The Mystery Religions written by S. Angus and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic study explores the Eleusinian mysteries of ancient Greece; Asiatic cults of Cybele, the Magna Mater, and Attis; Dionysian groups; Orphics; Egyptian devotees of Isis and Osiris; Mithraism; and others.
Download or read book The Mysteries Pagan and Christian written by Samuel Cheetham and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-19 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Mysteries Pagan and Christian: Being the Hulsean Lectures for 1896-97 From the time of the revival of learning to the present day the Mysteries of paganism have attracted much notice and been the subjects of much wild theorising, as well as of much scholarly and careful investigation. According to the prepossessions with which they set out, different inquirers have arrived at the most curiously various results, as is natural where the evidence is fragmentary and inconclusive. The older View of the pagan Mysteries was, that in them was taught an esoteric doctrine, better and nobler than that of the popular religion, which had been handed down from. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A History of the Origin of the Mysteries and Doctrines of Baptism and the Eucharist written by John Rawlings (of Hoxton, London.) and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The True Origins of Christianity and the Bible written by Andrew D. Benson and published by . This book was released on 1999-07-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pagan and Christian Mysteries written by Joseph Campbell and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
