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The Gnostics: Myth, Ritual, and Diversity in Early Christianity by David Brakke
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2011-04-16 | Author:David Brakke [Brakke, David]

Ritual: Baptism and Mystical Ascent A person did not have to be born to other descendants of Seth to become one of the chosen ones. Rather, one of the most ...
( Category: Christianity December 15,2014 )
Gods in the Desert: Religions of the Ancient Near East by Holland Glenn S
epub |eng | 2009-07-16 | Author:Holland, Glenn S. [Holland, Glenn S.]

CHAPTER NINE Mesopotamia: The World of the Dead The Realm of the Dead in the Ancient Mediterranean World Ancient Mesopotamian beliefs about the afterlife and the situation of the dead ...
( Category: General December 15,2014 )
The Lost History of Christianity by Jenkins John Philip
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-10-15 | Author:Jenkins, John Philip [Jenkins, John Philip]

The Year of the Sword Such conflicts provide the essential prehistory for the Armenian genocide of the First World War years, which represented an escalation in intensity, rather than a ...
( Category: Christianity December 2,2014 )
Fighting Words: The Origins Of Religious Violence by Hector Avalos
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-10-11 | Author:Hector Avalos [Avalos, Hector]

Yoder's violence to the plain meaning of the text is as arbitrary as any encountered from fundamentalists. Indeed, how does one come to understand "the point" of a passage except ...
( Category: General December 2,2014 )
Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife by Miller Lisa
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-03-04 | Author:Miller, Lisa [Miller, Lisa]

NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES Carol Zaleski is the mother of modern heaven studies. A practicing Roman Catholic, she became fascinated with heaven as a young child. “Heaven has always been the best, ...
( Category: General December 2,2014 )
The Religious Context of Early Christianity: A Guide to Graeco-Roman Religions (Studies of the New Testament and Its World) by Hans Josef Klauck
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-10-07 | Author:Hans Josef Klauck

At a later date, the Church fathers drew above all on the Bible in their polemic against astrology (cf. Riedinger). The very fact that they continually had to fight a ...
( Category: Christianity December 2,2014 )
Incredible Shrinking Son of Man: How Reliable Is the Gospel Tradition? by Robert M. Price
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-07-07 | Author:Robert M. Price

Luke 7:41-43 constitute a miniature parable (the Two Debtors) tucked into the heavily redacted Lukan version of the anointing. Luke has made the original into another lesson of the superior ...
( Category: General December 2,2014 )
The Dark Side of Christian History by Ellerbe Helen
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-04-08 | Author:Ellerbe, Helen [Ellerbe, Helen]

Chapter Eight The Witch Hunts: The End of Magic and Miracles 1450 - 1750 C.E. The Reformation did not convert the people of Europe to orthodox Christianity through preaching and ...
( Category: Christianity December 2,2014 )
The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom by Moss Candida
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-04 | Author:Moss, Candida [Moss, Candida]

THERE’S NO DOUBT THAT Christians thought they were persecuted; they ruminate on it, theologize about it, bewail, lament, protest, and complain. Nor should we underestimate the reality of their experiences. ...
( Category: Christianity December 2,2014 )
When Jesus Became God: The Epic Fight over Christ's Divinity in the Last Days of Rome by Rubenstein Richard E
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-08-09 | Author:Rubenstein, Richard E. [Rubenstein, Richard E.]

As Athanasius's star fell in the East, Arius's rose. In 335, while the bishops conferred in Tyre, he was in Constantinople with his friend, Euzoius, and a group of followers. ...
( Category: Christianity December 2,2014 )
Inerrant the Wind: The Evangelical Crisis in Biblical Authority by Robert M. Price
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-08-26 | Author:Robert M. Price

EVANGELICAL DEMYTHOLOGIZING As is well known, Bultmann contended, "It is impossible to use electric light and the wireless and to avail ourselves of modern medical and surgical discoveries, and at ...
( Category: General December 2,2014 )
Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys Into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East by Russell Gerard
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2014-10-20 | Author:Russell, Gerard [Russell, Gerard]

The Samaritans have preserved carefully over the generations their ancient scrolls, which record a Torah that differs somewhat from the Jewish one. Here in 1905 a Samaritan priest displays one ...
( Category: Ethnic & Tribal November 24,2014 )
La Rama Dorada by James George Frazer
mobi |es | 2011-05-18 | Author:James George Frazer

CAPÍTULO XXXIX EL RITUAL DE OSIRIS 1. LOS RITOS POPULARES Una pista muy útil para averiguar la naturaleza originaria de un dios o diosa la suministra con frecuencia la estación ...
( Category: General November 11,2014 )
Biblia de Jerusalen(c.2) by Escuela Biblica De Jerusalen
mobi |es | 2011-12-17 | Author:Escuela Biblica De Jerusalen

PROVERBIOS Proverbios 1 1 Proverbios de Salomón, hijo de David, rey de Israel: 2 para aprender sabiduría e instrucción, para entender los discursos profundos, 3 para alcanzar instrucción y perspicacia, ...
( Category: General November 11,2014 )
One Simple Idea by Mitch Horowitz
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-01-06 | Author:Mitch Horowitz [Horowitz, Mitch]

“There was,” she concluded, “a certain power in that position, an appealing kind of freedom in the lack of past and Carlos knew it.” Both Neville and Castaneda were dealing ...
( Category: General November 7,2014 )

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