The Mythmaker: Paul and the Invention of ChristianityHarper & Row, 1986 - 237 oldal The author presents new arguments which support the view that Paul, not Jesus, was the founder of Christianity. He argues that Jesus and also his immediate disciples James and Peter were life-long adherents of Pharisaic Judaism. Paul, however, was not, as he claimed, a native-born Jew of Pharisee upbringing, but came in fact from a Gentile background. He maintains that it was Paul alone who created a new religion by his vision of Jesus as a Divine Saviour who died to save humanity. This concept, which went far beyond the messianic claims of Jesus, was an amalgamation of ideas derived from Hellenistic religion, especially from Gnosticism and the mystery cults. Paul played a devious and adventurous political game with Jesus' followers of the so-called Jerusalem Church, who eventually disowned him. The conclusions of this historical and psychological study will come as a shock to many readers, but it is nevertheless a book which cannot be ignored by anyone concerned with the foundations of our culture and society. -- Book jacket. |
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... argument , and this has been regarded as incontrovertible proof of his Pharisee training , which gave him a taste for arguing in this way even when he was arguing for a doctrine of which the Pharisees would have disapproved strongly ...
... argument , and this has been regarded as incontrovertible proof of his Pharisee training , which gave him a taste for arguing in this way even when he was arguing for a doctrine of which the Pharisees would have disapproved strongly ...
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... argument has no precision about it , for how do we know how much to add to the data given in the premise in order to arrive at the conclusion ? The only precise form of the argument is this : if offending a father deserves seven days ...
... argument has no precision about it , for how do we know how much to add to the data given in the premise in order to arrive at the conclusion ? The only precise form of the argument is this : if offending a father deserves seven days ...
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... argument is swamped by his imaginative obsession with death and rebirth . Thus he produces a muddled poem , instead of a legal argument . Various attempts have been made to defend his argument on the ground of its ' poetic truth ' , but ...
... argument is swamped by his imaginative obsession with death and rebirth . Thus he produces a muddled poem , instead of a legal argument . Various attempts have been made to defend his argument on the ground of its ' poetic truth ' , but ...
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The Problem of Paul | 3 |
The Standpoint of this Book | 14 |
t The Road to Damascus | 85 |
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