Varieties of Jesus Mythicism
Title | Varieties of Jesus Mythicism PDF eBook |
Author | John W. Loftus |
Publisher | Ockham Publishing Group |
Pages | 1072 |
Release | 2022-06-29 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1839191597 |
To most people on the planet, the existence of Jesus is a given: “Of course he did!” They take it for granted that he existed simply because it reaffirms their faith. But to the rest of us who don't believe in a supernatural Jesus, the question of the historicity of Jesus is not simple. There are thousands of different ideas about to what extent the Jesus tales were based on a real man, or men, or woman... Did Jesus even exist, and if not, what best explains the rise of such a character in the New Testament? That is where John W. Loftus and Robert M. Price come in. Each with decades of experience in the fields of theology and Christian history, Loftus and Price have compiled essays from some of the top authorities on Jesus mythicism to establish the world's first academic catalogue of mythicist beliefs. Experts who provided chapters include David Fitzgerald, Joseph Atwill, Michael Lockwood, and more! The question is no longer simply, "Did Jesus even exist?" In this compilation, you'll find yourself questioning everything about the Christ story and how it truly began.
Varieties of Jesus Mythicism: Did He Even Exist?
Title | Varieties of Jesus Mythicism: Did He Even Exist? PDF eBook |
Author | John W. Loftus |
Publisher | Hypatia Press |
Pages | 408 |
Release | 2021-11-18 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9781839191589 |
To most people on the planet, the existence of Jesus is a given: "Of course he did!" They take it for granted that he existed simply because it reaffirms their faith. But to the rest of us who don't believe in a supernatural Jesus, the question of the historicity of Jesus is not simple. There are thousands of different ideas about to what extent the Jesus tales were based on a real man, or men, or woman... Did Jesus even exist, and if not, what best explains the rise of such a character in the New Testament? That is where John W. Loftus and Robert M. Price come in. Each with decades of experience in the fields of theology and Christian history, Loftus and Price have compiled essays from some of the top authorities on Jesus mythicism to establish the world's first academic catalogue of mythicist beliefs. Experts who provided chapters include David Fitzgerald, Joseph Atwill, Michael Lockwood, and more! The question is no longer simply, "Did Jesus even exist?" In this compilation, you'll find yourself questioning everything about the Christ story and how it truly began.
The Two Gospels of Mark
Title | The Two Gospels of Mark PDF eBook |
Author | Danila Oder |
Publisher | |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 2019-06-10 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780578505312 |
A new theory: The Gospel of Mark began as a play performed in Rome 90-95 CE, and produced by Flavia Domitilla, a Roman aristocrat. Author takes a director's point of view to systematically uncover the play beneath Mark's condensed, literary text. Illuminates early Christianity. For scholars in biblical studies or ancient theater.
Jesus from Outer Space
Title | Jesus from Outer Space PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Carrier |
Publisher | Pitchstone Publishing (US&CA) |
Pages | 233 |
Release | 2020-10-20 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1634312082 |
The earliest Christians believed Jesus was an ancient celestial being who put on a bodysuit of flesh, died at the hands of dark forces, and then rose from the dead and ascended back into the heavens. But the writing we have today from that first generation of Christians never says where they thought he landed, where he lived, or where he died. The idea that Jesus toured Galilee and visited Jerusalem arose only a lifetime later, in unsourced legends written in a foreign land and language. Many sources repeat those legends, but none corroborate them. Why? What exactly was the original belief about Jesus, and how did this belief change over time? In Jesus from Outer Space, noted philosopher and historian Richard Carrier summarizes for a popular audience the scholarly research on these and related questions, revealing in turn how modern attempts to conceal, misrepresent, or avoid the actual evidence calls into question the entire field of Jesus studies--and present-day beliefs about how Christianity began.
Did Jesus Exist?
Title | Did Jesus Exist? PDF eBook |
Author | G. A. Wells |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1987-02 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780879753955 |
Professor Wells argues that there was no historical Jesus, and in thus arguing he deals with the many recent writers who have interpreted the historical Jesus as some kind of political figure in the struggle against Rome, and calls in evidence the many contemporary theologians who agree with some of his arguments about early Christianity. The question at issue is what all the evidence adds up to. Does it establish that Jesus did or did not exist? Professor Wells concludes that the latter is the more likely hypothesis. This challenge to received thinking by both Christians and non-Christians is supported by much documentary evidence, and Professor Wells carefully examines all the relevant problems and answers all the relevant questions. He deliberately avoids polemic and speculation, and sticks so far as possible to the known facts and to rational inferences from the facts.
Nailed: Ten Christian Myths That Show Jesus Never Existed at All
Title | Nailed: Ten Christian Myths That Show Jesus Never Existed at All PDF eBook |
Author | David Fitzgerald |
Publisher | |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 2010-10-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780557709915 |
Why would anyone think Jesus never existed? Isn't it perfectly reasonable to accept that he was a real first century figure? As it turns out, no.NAILED sheds light on ten beloved Christian myths, and, with evidence gathered from historians across the theological spectrum, shows how they point to a Jesus Christ created solely through allegorical alchemy of hope and imagination; a messiah transformed from a purely literary, theological construct into the familiar figure of Jesus ' in short, a purely mythic Christ.
Jesus is No Myth!
Title | Jesus is No Myth! PDF eBook |
Author | David Marshall |
Publisher | |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Apologetics |
ISBN | 9780970227843 |