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Alternative Christs
Contributor(s): Hammer, Olav (Editor)
ISBN: 0521889022     ISBN-13: 9780521889025
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
OUR PRICE:   $114.00  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: August 2009
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Annotation: This book explores innovative views of Christ that depart radically from those presented by mainstream churches.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Christian Theology - Christology
Dewey: 232.9
LCCN: 2009014241
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 9" (1.40 lbs) 316 pages
Themes:
- Religious Orientation - Christian
- Theometrics - Academic
- Theometrics - Secular
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:
Few, if any, individuals have had such a profound influence on Western culture as Jesus, even though not a single detail of his life or teaching can be confirmed with certainty. This lack of reliable biographical data has left his life open to broad interpretation. Jesus, gnostic and apocryphal sources insist, never truly died on the cross since he was a divine being, whose human frame was an illusion. Muslim sources affirm that Jesus was a prophet of God and will return at the end of time. J rg Lanz von Liebenfels formulated racial theories in which Jesus was a redeemer for Aryans only, while the Renaissance polymath Guillaume Postel was convinced that Christ had returned as a Venetian woman. This book explores these and other views without taking sides in any theological arguments and presents research on a variety of alternative Christologies.

Contributor Bio(s): Hammer, Olav: - Olav Hammer is Professor, History of Religions at the University of Southern Denmark. He is co-editor with James R. Lewis of The Invention of Sacred Tradition (2007).

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