Religion & Spirituality
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-11 | Author:Pagels, Elaine [Pagels, Elaine]

By the end of the gospel, Jesus’ epiphany will have accomplished in human society what God accomplished cosmologically in creation: the separation of light from darkness—that is, of the “sons ...
( Category: Christianity December 2,2014 )
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 )
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 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-10-04 | Author:Doherty, Earl [Doherty, Earl]

The Hymn of the Pearl This tale comprises part of the Acts of Thomas, one of a group of writings probably composed in Edessa (northeastern Syria) during the second and ...
( Category: Christian Books & Bibles December 2,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-07-07 | Author:Robert M. Price

46a. Jesus said: The world and the hereafter are like two women which a man is trying to please at the same time; when one is pleased, the other is ...
( Category: Bible Study December 2,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-02-22 | Author:Carrier, Richard [Carrier, Richard]

Quote from: Carl Sagan, “Does Truth Matter? Science, Pseudoscience, and Civilization,” Skeptical Inquirer 20:6 (1996), p. 29. Still important is William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in ...
( Category: Philosophy December 2,2014 )
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 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-20 | Author:. [.]

NO FORWARDING ADDRESS As I read John's Easter account in 20:11–15, I do not need to impose some sort of Jesus hating skepticism in order to “escape” the implications of ...
( Category: Christianity December 2,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-02-19 | Author:Jenkins, John Philip [Jenkins, John Philip]

The Last Romans? By the 440s, the generation that had dealt with the Nestorian crisis was fading away. New leaders were in power in Rome, where Pope Leo succeeded in ...
( Category: Christianity December 2,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-01-19 | Author:Carrier, Richard [Carrier, Richard]

1.5 Second Attempt: Inventing a Second Governorship for Quirinius Even fishing a different date out of Luke would leave a contradiction within Luke, since the only chronological detail about Jesus ...
( Category: New Testament December 2,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-02-10 | Author:Carrier, Richard [Carrier, Richard]

And though “they were not concerned at all to reform society,” they were concerned to maintain a satisfactory society ‘within’ society, which strove to be accepted by outsiders, while realizing ...
( Category: Christian Books & Bibles December 2,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-11 | Author:Friedman, Richard Elliott [Friedman, Richard Elliott]

The Covenant Modern investigators were confused over these insertions about the Davidic covenant. Sometimes the insertions reiterated this promise that the Davidic kings would rule forever, even if they sinned; ...
( Category: Old Testament December 2,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-07-20 | Author:Randel Helms

Matthew enriches his account with a fascinating addition about Peter's effort to copy his Lord. After the disciples recognize the figure on the water as Jesus, the impetuous Peter called ...
( Category: New Testament December 2,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-02-06 | Author:Price, Robert M. [Price, Robert M.]

Gregory J. Riley’s Resurrection Reconsidered Thomas and John in Controversy (Fortress, 1995) John versus Thomas I think those biblical scholars serve us best who cause us, like an unpredictable old ...
( Category: Christology December 2,2014 )
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 )