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Alternative Christs, Paperback / softback Book

Alternative Christs Paperback / softback

Edited by Olav (University of Southern Denmark) Hammer

Paperback / softback

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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.

Joerg 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.

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  • Format:Paperback / softback
  • Pages:316 pages
  • Publisher:Cambridge University Press
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  • ISBN:9781107651890
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  • Format:Paperback / softback
  • Pages:316 pages
  • Publisher:Cambridge University Press
  • Publication Date:
  • Category:
  • ISBN:9781107651890