The Ancient Roots Of Christianity
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In Search Of Ancient Roots
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Author : Kenneth J. Stewart
language : en
Publisher: Inter-Varsity Press
Release Date : 2017-11-16
In Search Of Ancient Roots written by Kenneth J. Stewart and has been published by Inter-Varsity Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-16 with Religion categories.
Some evangelical churches appear to be uninterested in their historical roots, and so can be liturgically and doctrinally unstable. Perceiving this disconnection between their Protestant faith and ancient Christianity, a number of evangelicals have abandoned Protestantism for traditions that seem to be clearly rooted in the early church. Ken Stewart argues that the evangelical tradition’s track record of interaction with Christian antiquity is far healthier than is often assumed. He surveys five centuries of Protestant engagement with the ancient church, showing that Christians belonging to the evangelical churches of the Reformation consistently see their faith as connected to early Christianity. Stewart explores areas of positive engagement, including the Lord’s Supper and biblical interpretation, as well as areas that raise concerns, such as monasticism. In Search of Ancient Roots shows that Christian antiquity is the heritage of all orthodox Christians, and that evangelicals have the resources in their history to claim their place at the ecumenical table. ‘A must-read for every person struggling with the question, “What does evangelicalism have to do with history?”’ Leonardo De Chirico, Director of Reformanda Initiative
A Key To The Knowledge Of Church History Ancient
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Author : John Henry Blunt
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2019-12-19
A Key To The Knowledge Of Church History Ancient written by John Henry Blunt and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-19 with History categories.
"A Key to the Knowledge of Church History (Ancient)" is a book on the history of the pre-Reformation church. It gives a short and condensed account of the origin, growth, and condition of the church in all parts of the world, from ancient times down to the end of the fifteenth century.
Ancient History Of The God Jesus
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Author : Edouard Dujardin
language : en
Publisher: Health Research Books
Release Date : 1993-06
Ancient History Of The God Jesus written by Edouard Dujardin and has been published by Health Research Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-06 with Religion categories.
1938 Contents: a Man among Men, a God among Gods, the Expiatory Sacrifice, the Crucifixion a Sacrificial Rite, the Sacred Drama of the Yeard A.D. 27, Christian Origins, the Ancient Religion of Jesus, the First Christian Gerneation Enters on the Scene, T.
Christianity Of Old
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Author : Victor Akinkunmi
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2023-09-25
Christianity Of Old written by Victor Akinkunmi and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-25 with categories.
"Christianity of Old" is a fascinating journey into the ancient roots of the Christian faith. In this brief but informative book, you'll explore the formative years of Christianity, from its humble beginnings as a persecuted movement in the Roman Empire to its rise as a powerful force shaping the course of history. Learn about the lives of the early believers, the hardships they faced, and the profound theological debates that defined the faith. Whether you're an expert in the history of religion or a curious reader looking to explore the foundations of Christianity, this book provides fascinating insight into the enduring legacy of a faith that has inspired billions of people throughout the centuries.
The Secret Roots Of Christianity
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Author : David Wray
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-11-01
The Secret Roots Of Christianity written by David Wray and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-01 with Religion categories.
Traditional religious history preserves a rarely acknowledged secret that Christianity developed from at least three ancient roots: a Western structural root derived from Mediterranean Greek culture, an Eastern spiritual root from Anatolia and Persia, and a literary Jewish historical root, which masked the other roots and supported the idea that Christians had taken the place of Jews in relationship with God by entering a new covenant with Jesus. Each root contributed something special to the development of Christianity as follows: Supported by pagan iconography and rhetoric, the Western root imprinted Christianity with Greek spirit in a Hellenistic universe. The Eastern root filled the Greek construct with magic, focused humanity on a divine mission, and infused popular reverence for goddesses into Christian beliefs about the Virgin Mary. The literary Jewish root played two contradictory roles: Jewish scripture served as the reliable witness that proved Jesus to be both God and savior; and double-edged moral lessons in the Old Testament explained catastrophic events in the first century A.D. as divine judgment against Jews, supporting beliefs by early pagan converts to Christianity that Romans were good, Jews were bad, and God abandoned Jews for treacherously murdering Jesus. Two thousand years ago, Mediterranean cults included practices and beliefs that modern Christians associate exclusively with Christianity. People worshipped divine mothers who gave birth to dying and resurrecting gods on December 25. Saviors miraculously healed faithful followers and guided them to lead moral lives. Some cults baptized their followers, some passed their sins and inner demons to pigs, and some waited for a complete destruction of evil during the imminent End of Days. Then, as now, people argued whether the end would come by fire or water and whether many or few souls would be saved. Numerous symbols and beliefs associated in modern times with Christianity already existed in pre-Christian Hellenistic cults: Madonna and child images, angels, God the Father, the cross as a symbol of life after death, and the gift of eternal life through the shedding of immortal blood. On temple walls, wise men offered gifts of incense and gold to newborn gods; and merciful mothers granted salvation to the poor in spirit who confessed, repented, and begged forgiveness for their sins. However, Jews generally rejected all these practices, symbols, and beliefs. Some Jews believed in physical resurrection, and some did not. Some believed in eternal life, and some did not. For most Jews, however, a righteous life required the following of God's laws. If a Jew sinned against another man, no automatic forgiveness from God was possible. Forgiveness required acknowledgement of wrongdoing, restitution, and then forgiveness from the wronged party. Applying Jewish ethics to problems at the Jerusalem Temple meant recognizing the corruption within the priesthood, refusing to tolerate the evil rule of Rome, and giving one's life if necessary to precipitate the Kingdom of God. Just as God always had responded to the prayers of suffering Jews in the Bible, he would do so again. Soon he would send a messiah to deliver Jerusalem from the evil power of Rome and to cleanse Judea from the polluting practices of pagan cults. Drawing from both visible and secret roots, Christians freed themselves from paying for salvation from mystery cults while preserving the ability to worship a virgin-born hero with all the trappings of a pagan solar deity. This book explores the roots of Christianity in seven parts. The first three parts provide an overview of religious beliefs, practices, and iconography in the ancient Greek world that influenced Western culture and religion. The fourth, fifth, and sixth parts describe how the West developed under Roman influence. Then the seventh part focuses on the life of Jesus and the emergence of Christian cults in the first century A.D.
An Old Fashioned Christianity
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Author : Ronald Lancaster
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-03-09
An Old Fashioned Christianity written by Ronald Lancaster and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-09 with categories.
In beautiful scripted and uplifting prose, Ron Lancaster shows that Jesus is a man alive, not a man buried under the paper leaves of history. Every essay sings to the soul a new doctrine as old as the hills. This is a sound rebuke of the prevailing academic atheism that infects much of America. In its place is offered a thoughtful means to an elevated understanding of humanity's role in our God-made world.
Ancient Egyptian Roots Of Christianity Expanded 2nd Edition
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Author : Moustafa Gadalla
language : en
Publisher: Moustafa Gadalla
Release Date : 2016-12-02
Ancient Egyptian Roots Of Christianity Expanded 2nd Edition written by Moustafa Gadalla and has been published by Moustafa Gadalla this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-02 with Religion categories.
Egyptian roots of Christianity, both historically and spiritually. This book reveals the Ancient Egyptian roots of Christianity, both historically and spiritually. This Expanded Version of the book consists of three parts to coincide with the terms of trinity. The first part demonstrates that the major biblical ancestors of the biblical Jesus are all Ancient Egyptian prominent characters. The second part demonstrates that the accounts of the “historical Jesus” are based entirely on the life and death of the Egyptian Pharaoh, Twt/Tut-Ankh-Amen. The third part demonstrates that the “Jesus of Faith” and the Christian tenets are all Egyptian in origin—such as the essence of the teachings/message, the creation of the universe and man (according to the Book of Genesis), as well as the religious holidays. The very thing that is now called the Christian religion was already in existence in Ancient Egypt, long before the adoption of the New Testament. The British Egyptologist, Sir E. A. Wallis Budge, wrote in his book, The Gods of the Egyptians [1969], The new religion (Christianity) which was preached there by St. Mark and his immediate followers, in all essentials so closely resembled that which was the outcome of the worship of Osiris, Isis, and Horus. The similarities, noted by Budge and everyone who has compared the Egyptian Osiris/Isis/ Horus allegory to the Gospel story, are striking. Both accounts are practically the same, e.g. the supernatural conception, the divine birth, the struggles against the enemy in the wilderness, and the resurrection from the dead to eternal life. The main difference between the “two versions”, is that the Gospel tale is considered historical and the Osiris/Isis/Horus cycle is an allegory. The spiritual message of the Ancient Egyptian Osiris/Isis/Horus allegory and the Christian revelation is exactly the same. The British scholar A.N. Wilson pointed out in his book, Jesus: The Jesus of History and the Christ of Faith are two separate beings, with very different stories. It is difficult enough to reconstruct the first, and in the attempt we are likely to do irreparable harm to the second. This book will demonstrate that the “Jesus of History”, the ”Jesus of Faith”, and the tenets of Christianity are all Ancient Egyptian. This will be done without causing any “irreparable harm” as per A.N. Wilson’s concern, for two main reasons: Firstly, the truth must be told. Secondly, explaining Christian tenets via their original Ancient Egyptian contexts will enhance the idealism of Christianity. This Expanded Version of the book consists of three parts to coincide with the terms of trinity—the Three that are Two that are One. The first part demonstrates that the major biblical ancestors of the biblical Jesus are all Ancient Egyptian prominent individuals. The second part demonstrates that the accounts of the “historical Jesus” are based entirely on the life and death of the Egyptian Pharaoh, Twt/Tut- Ankh-Amen. The third part demonstrates that the “Jesus of Faith” and the Christian tenets are all Egyptian in origin—such as the essence of the teachings/message, the creation of the universe and man (according to the Book of Genesis), as well as the religious holidays. There is an undeniable irony and a profound, deep, undeniable truth in Hosea’s prophetic saying, Out of Egypt have I called my Son. A deep irony indeed. Let us open our minds and review the available evidence. For the truth is a composite of different and complementary pieces of a puzzle. Let us put the pieces in the right location, time and order.
Finding The Roots Of Christianity
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Author : Luke Painter
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2017-06-05
Finding The Roots Of Christianity written by Luke Painter and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-05 with Religion categories.
Finding the Roots of Christianity is for people who are curious about the historical Jesus, his followers, and the movement they began. Who were they, and how was their message understood by those who heard them? Where did the New Testament of the Bible come from? In a personal, thoughtful style, Luke Painter brings into focus the life and times of the Jewish prophet Jesus of Nazareth, bridging the gap between personal study of the Bible and academic scholarship. Sources outside the Bible, including the ancient historian Josephus and recently discovered "lost scriptures" such as the Dead Sea Scrolls, reveal the diversity of early Christian beliefs. Roman religious beliefs influenced how the Christian message was understood during the transition from Jewish sects to the official religion of the Roman Empire. Clear and concise, and based on careful historical research, this book guides the reader through what is known about the earliest origins of Christianity as well as recent discoveries and debates. The author's personal journey of faith and passionate interest in the people behind the New Testament enliven the facts of history, illuminating their meaning for their own time as well as today.
Christian Symbols Ancient Roots
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Author : Elizabeth Rees
language : en
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Release Date : 1992
Christian Symbols Ancient Roots written by Elizabeth Rees and has been published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Art categories.
Ancient peoples articulated and made sense of their lives through the powerful world of symbol, and Christianity absorbed such symbols as blood, corn, fire and water, adding new dimensions of meaning to each one. By medieval times, these symbols provided access to a many-levelled world in which pagan and Christian truths shed light upon each other. During the Age of Reason, the language of symbol was spoken less, and now that symbols are valued once again, Christians often fear to reconnect religious symbols with their ancient roots. As a result the symbol world of modern Christians is often a pale shadow of the world their forebears inhabited. This book selects dominant Christian symbols and places them against the archaic background from which they grew, drawing on myths and rituals of both ancient and contemporary cultures, thereby integrating the worlds of symbol and reality, sacred and secular, myth and history.
A Short History Of Christianity
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Author : J. M. Robertson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-07-13
A Short History Of Christianity written by J. M. Robertson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-13 with categories.
In this highly controversial work, J. M. Robertson, secularist and advocate of the Jesus-Myth theory, casts a critical eye over the history of Christianity. "In the ancient history of religions, as in the ancient history of nations, the first account given of origins is almost always a myth. A divine or worshipful founder is craved by the primitive imagination no less for cults and institutions, tribes and polities, than for the forms of life and the universe itself; and history, like science, may roughly be said to begin only when that craving for first causes has been discredited, or controlled, by the later arising instinct of exact observation. Such a check or control tends to be set up by the presence of intelligently hostile forces, as in the case of the religion of Mohammed, whose teaching warred with and was warred on by rival faiths from the first, and whose own written and definite doctrine forbade his apotheosis. Some of the early Christian sects, which went far towards setting up independent cults, had their origins similarly defined by the pressure of criticism from the main body. But even in some such cases, notably in that of the Manichæan movement, the myth-making process has partly eluded hostile scrutiny;1 and earlier growths incurred much less of critical inquiry. Before the Christian system had taken organized historic form, in virtue of having come into the heritage of literary and political method embodied in the Greco-Roman civilization, it is rarely possible to trust the record of any cult's beginnings, even where it professes to derive from a non-supernatural teacher; so ungoverned is the myth-making instinct in the absence of persistent criticism. Buddha, Zoroaster, and Moses are only less obviously mythical figures than Krishna, Herakles, and Osiris. Of the Christian cult it can at best be said that it takes its rise on the border-land between the historical and the unhistorical, since any rational defense of it to-day admits that in the story of its origins there is at least an element of sheer myth." CONTENTS Preface to the First Edition Preface to the Second Edition Part I PRIMITIVE CHRISTIANITY Chap. I--The Beginnings Chap. II--The Environment Chap. III--Conditions of Survival Part II CHRISTIANITY FROM THE SECOND CENTURY TO THE RISE OF ISLAM Chap. I--Developments in the Unestablished Church Chap. II--Relations of Church and State Chap. III--Failure with Survival Part III MEDIEVAL CHRISTIANITY Chap. I--Expansion and Organization Chap. II--Religious Evolution and Strife Chap. III--The Social Life and Structure Chap. IV--The Intellectual Life Chap. V--Byzantine Christianity Part IV MODERN CHRISTIANITY Chap. I--The Reformation Chap. II--Progress of Anti-Christian Thought Chap. III--Popular Acceptance Chap. IV--The Relation to Progress Synopsis of Literature