Re: Religious Book Discusion Groups

On Mar 30, 7:35 pm, AJA <ahnem...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> "Bren" <BGK...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On Mar 19, 8:16=A0pm, curmudgeon <briticanlan...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >> At my local Church we try to get as many members of the congregation
as
> >> possible involved in Religious themed books as we possibly can.
> >> Two books that are now up for consideration are, the Purpose Driven
> >> Church=
> >> by Rick Warren, and Christianity for the rest of Us, by Diana Butler
> >> Bass.=
> > B - all religions? or just Christianity themed ones?. I tend to love
> > to read books on all faiths written from the perspective of those
> > actually IN the faith themselves to get ONE truth of the matter. My
> > faves are books by Gardiner and Freke and Gandy on the Pagan Christ
> > etc. I also love the Bhagavad Gita and Sufi texts.
>
> Wonderful pieces of literature we should all read.  The Tibetan Book of
the
> Dead, even Plato's Timaes, and The Republic, maybe the Pistis Sophia. 
Al
> could be enlightening.  But thsoe are  not the kind of book  curmudgeon
was
> considering for his particular study.
> And what, pray tell, is the Pagan Christ?
>
> Blessings,
> Ann

B - hmmm...well I don't see him saying this...I see him talking about
religious books...so for me that can mean any kind. Did he tell you
something different?  The Pagan Christ is some scholars interpretation
of an earlier (pre-Nicene)take on Jesus as another take on the
agricultural rising and falling gods ..a take on Mithas (read the
similarities to their histories...almost indentical). Not that they
are saying that Jesus the man did not exist but that people overlaid
an earlier mythos ontop of him so that followers would indeed follow
him. The Pagan Christ (or was that Pagan Jesus?) was written by Freke
and Grandy and there are many other scholars who question the
traditional story of Christ as well..Matthew Fox for one.
Good to get an rounded view on Christ I feel.

Bren