The Myth of the Resurrection and Other Essays (The Freethought Library)

Mccabe, Joseph

ISBN 10: 0879758333 / ISBN 13: 9780879758332

Editore: Prometheus, 1993

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Riassunto:

Did Jesus ever live? Was he the Messiah as Christianity has claimed? And what are the true foundations of the Christian religion?

These are the fundamental questions posed by ex-priest Joseph McCabe (1867-1955), a prodigious scholar, translator, and lecturer, who tirelessly promoted scientific inquiry, skepticism, and anticlericalism in works that were exhaustively researched yet accessible to the general reader.

In these three lively, informative, and combative essays, McCabe takes us through the ancient Mediterranean world to show how Christianity appropriated the ceremonies and myths of paganism to elaborate the Resurrection story. McCabe cogently demonstrates that the Jesus of the gospels is not historical at all but a curious amalgam built up after his death. The gospels themselves are completely unreliable as biographies of Jesus. Critically examining all the ancient sources, McCabe reveals a series of shameless distortions by Christian apologists who, he argues, destroyed classical civilization and inaugurated the Dark Ages.

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Titolo: The Myth of the Resurrection and Other ...
Casa editrice: Prometheus
Data di pubblicazione: 1993
Legatura: paperback
Condizione: Very Good