Shadow of the Third Century: A Revaluation of Christianity

2019 Reprint of 1949 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software....
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Author: Alvin Boyd Kuhn
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Shadow of the Third Century: A Revaluation of Christianity by Kuhn, Alvin Boyd

Shadow of the Third Century: A Revaluation of Christianity

$64.38

Shadow of the Third Century: A Revaluation of Christianity

$64.38
Author: Alvin Boyd Kuhn
Format: Paperback
Language: English

2019 Reprint of 1949 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. Shadow of the Third Century begins with the assertions that a true history of Christianity has never before been written and that the roots of the Christian religion lie in earlier religions and philosophies of the ancient world. Christianity as we know it, says Kuhn, took the form it did due to a degeneration of knowledge rather than to an energization produced by a new release of light and truth into the world. In the ancient world, knowledge was commonly passed down by esoteric traditions, its inner meaning known only to the initiated. The Gospels, says Kuhn, should therefore be understood as symbolic narratives rather than as history. Sacred scriptures are always written in a language of myth and symbol, and the Christian religion threw away and lost their true meaning when it mistranslated this language into alleged history instead of reading it as spiritual allegory. This literalism necessarily led to a religion antagonistic toward philosophy. Moreover, it produced a religion that failed to recognize its continuity with, and debt to, earlier esoteric schools. As evidence of this, Kuhn finds that many of the gospel stories and sayings have parallels in earlier works, in particular those of Egypt and Greece. The transformation of Jesus' followers into Pauline Christians drew on these sources. Moreover, the misunderstanding of true Christianity led to the excesses of misguided asceticism. The book as a whole is, says Kuhn, a "clarion call to the modern world to return to the primitive Christianity which the founder of Christian theology, Augustine, proclaimed had been the true religion of all humanity." With its many citations from earlier works, Shadow of the Third Century also serves as a bibliographic introduction to alternative histories of Christianity.



Author: Alvin Boyd Kuhn
Publisher: Martino Fine Books
Published: 06/26/2019
Pages: 542
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.81lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.21d
ISBN: 9781684223541

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