Christian Texts and History • Re: Sacrifice of Jesus to "purchase"...
I think a mistake that is easy to make when trying to determine the origins of christianity is to assume that at its origin you will find a religion that was logically coherent that made theological...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Religious History
Yes indeed. Some have argued that Marcion wrote the first Gospel. (Just bringing the thread back on track)Statistics: Posted by GakuseiDon — Wed May 22, 2024 1:50 pm
View ArticleOther Texts and History • Re: A Third of Papers Made Up
Bad News at Wiley:https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-21/ ... /103868662Statistics: Posted by billd89 — Wed May 22, 2024 3:02 pm
View ArticleOther Texts and History • Re: 50% of BM Stolen Items Recovered
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/briti ... am-2489764Statistics: Posted by billd89 — Wed May 22, 2024 3:14 pm
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Christian Texts and History • Re: Proposition: There are Three Major Classes...
You, LC, are of course free to sort Christian literature into three categories for your purposes.Thank you. Though some don't seem to fit. E.g., 1 and 2 Clement, which many do not regard as heretical,...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Sethian Gnostics
Originally the story of Sophia and the creation of the demiurge came from Plato and the canonical books of Plato which were preserved by the apostolic succession within the academy of Plato. The...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Your Dating is Wrong, Again.
Well, someone is Wrong on the Internet, and another is wrong in print: The authors of these texts have also borrowed material from other writings of Porphyry and, as a consequence, these texts display...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Van Manen about *Ev being a diplomatic Gospel
Van Manen is even more explicit about *Ev being connected with the fabricators of the epistles, as exposed now by Whittaker:A Written Gospel. To the indications of a later time belongs the use, which...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • References to using the imagination in the...
I’m looking for mentions of visual imagery, imagination, daydreaming, and so on. I have a hypothesis that the “visual imagination” was used more often in ancient religious practice. The cognitive...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • The Christian Messiah Claimants!
The Christian Messiah Claimants are a Ragtag Army of Religious Misfits!It is sad that people in these days of enlightenment, education for all, and technology, as well as living in the 21-century,...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: The Christian Messiah Claimants!
the list must have been written by Christians to embellish their so-called saviour!The list is based on Wikipedia:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_messiah_claimantsStatistics: Posted by Peter...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Couchoud's 'Is Marcion's Gospel One of the...
Do you know if there are any Evangelion-Mark readings not found in Luke which are also not found in Mattthew? Or are all known Evangelion-Mark vs. Luke readings also Evangelion-Mark-Matthew vs. Luke...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: References to using the imagination in the...
Aelius Aristides was a 2nd century AD Second Sophist orator who suffered a long series of illnesses for which he sought relief by divine communion with the god Asclepius, effected by interpreting and...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Zen and the Art of Historical Study
W. M. Ramsay seems to have appreciated some similar ways of thinking.https://archive.org/details/bearingofre ... 9/mode/2upHISTORICAL criticism is subject to great variety of judgment. With obviously...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Starting to Have Strong Doubts About Ariel...
Paper pre-dated my analysis. Not new and part of the Goodacre tribe.Statistics: Posted by Secret Alias — Fri May 24, 2024 6:20 am
View ArticleJewish Texts and History • Re: Licensing
Thank you Peter!I use the Creative Common/Non Commercial option on Internet Archive, but don't think much of it. My friend spent years working on a book (major revisions, enlarged edition), and it was...
View ArticleJewish Texts and History • Revisiting Philo's 1st C. Moral Psychology
DVC isn't random. Philo states clearly the Therapeutae are soul-healers; Jung (from Freud, probably) understood they worked with paradigms and formulae, and tried to copy them (w/ his Analytischen...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Re: Proposition: There are Three Major Classes...
If you are not interested in Origen as father or heretic, Book of Enoch as canonical or not, liturgies & prayers as which of three, Luther on epistle of straw, NTA not all heretical, etc.Peter...
View ArticleChristian Texts and History • Why Pilate according to Thomas Whittaker
The bearing of these "false Christs" on the mythical theory of the Gospel narrative is ambiguous. On the one hand, it may be said that if the apocaliptic model was so far predetermined that real...
View ArticleOther Texts and History • Re: Religious History
The authority of the Pope over the Irish church seems to have been recognized from at latest the Synod of Ráth Breasail in 1111 CE. A little before the reigns of Pope Adrian and King Henry II. Andrew...
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