Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062104543
Size: 76.60 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Book Description: In The Myth of Persecution, Candida Moss, a leading expert on early Christianity, reveals how the early church exaggerated, invented, and forged stories of Christian martyrs and how the dangerous legacy of a martyrdom complex is employed today to silence dissent and galvanize a new generation of culture warriors. According to cherished church tradition and popular belief, before the Emperor Constantine made Christianity legal in the fourth century, early Christians were systematically persecuted by a brutal Roman Empire intent on their destruction. As the story goes, vast numbers of believers were thrown to the lions, tortured, or burned alive because they refused to renounce Christ. These saints, Christianity's inspirational heroes, are still venerated today. Moss, however, exposes that the "Age of Martyrs" is a fiction—there was no sustained 300-year-long effort by the Romans to persecute Christians. Instead, these stories were pious exaggerations; highly stylized rewritings of Jewish, Greek, and Roman noble death traditions; and even forgeries designed to marginalize heretics, inspire the faithful, and fund churches. The traditional story of persecution is still taught in Sunday school classes, celebrated in sermons, and employed by church leaders, politicians, and media pundits who insist that Christians were—and always will be—persecuted by a hostile, secular world. While violence against Christians does occur in select parts of the world today, the rhetoric of persecution is both misleading and rooted in an inaccurate history of the early church. Moss urges modern Christians to abandon the conspiratorial assumption that the world is out to get Christians and, rather, embrace the consolation, moral instruction, and spiritual guidance that these martyrdom stories provide.
The Myth Of The Manuscript Found
Author: George Reynolds
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 70.90 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Category : Book of Mormon
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Size: 70.90 MB
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Category : Book of Mormon
Languages : en
Pages : 104
View: 3041
Book Description:
The Myth Of The Goddess
Author: Anne Baring
Publisher: Viking Adult
ISBN:
Size: 16.82 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 779
View: 7362
Book Description: An exploration into the myth of the Goddess chronicles her history from the Paleolithic Age to the present-day Gaia hypothesis, restoring the image of the Goddess and her Sacred Marriage to their place in human beings' psychic pantheon
Publisher: Viking Adult
ISBN:
Size: 16.82 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 779
View: 7362
Book Description: An exploration into the myth of the Goddess chronicles her history from the Paleolithic Age to the present-day Gaia hypothesis, restoring the image of the Goddess and her Sacred Marriage to their place in human beings' psychic pantheon
The Myth Of Christian Beginnings
Author: Robert Leo Wilken
Publisher:
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Size: 38.12 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 218
View: 370
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Size: 38.12 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 218
View: 370
Book Description:
The Myth Of Nazareth
Author: René Salm
Publisher: Amer Atheist Press
ISBN:
Size: 55.88 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 375
View: 2421
Book Description: An exhaustive and critical reevaluation of all artifacts pertaining to the archaeology of Nazareth shows that the site was not inhabited at the time Jesus Of Nazareth and his family should have been living there.
Publisher: Amer Atheist Press
ISBN:
Size: 55.88 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 375
View: 2421
Book Description: An exhaustive and critical reevaluation of all artifacts pertaining to the archaeology of Nazareth shows that the site was not inhabited at the time Jesus Of Nazareth and his family should have been living there.
Africa And The Myth Of The Sleeping Giant
Author: Emeka George Ekwuru
Publisher:
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Size: 13.53 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 289
View: 1086
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Size: 13.53 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 289
View: 1086
Book Description:
The Myth Of The Good And Bad Nations
Author: René Albert Wormser
Publisher:
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Size: 70.14 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Category : National characteristics
Languages : en
Pages : 180
View: 1094
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Size: 70.14 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Category : National characteristics
Languages : en
Pages : 180
View: 1094
Book Description:
Beyond The Myths Of Culture
Author: Eric B. Ross
Publisher:
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Size: 55.14 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 422
View: 2452
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Size: 55.14 MB
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 422
View: 2452
Book Description:
The Myth Of Christian America
Author: Mark Weldon Whitten
Publisher: Smyth & Helwys Pub
ISBN:
Size: 30.32 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 122
View: 1951
Book Description: Whitten outlines what Christians need to know about proper relations between religion, Christian or otherwise, and government. Far from being a "myth" or a "lie, " church-state separation is a constitutional principle and philosophy enshrined within the First Amendment.
Publisher: Smyth & Helwys Pub
ISBN:
Size: 30.32 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 122
View: 1951
Book Description: Whitten outlines what Christians need to know about proper relations between religion, Christian or otherwise, and government. Far from being a "myth" or a "lie, " church-state separation is a constitutional principle and philosophy enshrined within the First Amendment.
The Myths Of Hyginus
Author: C. Julius Hyginus
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Size: 48.21 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 244
View: 6631
Book Description:
Publisher:
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Size: 48.21 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 244
View: 6631
Book Description:
