Magic in Christianity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Magic in Christianity write by Robert P. Conner. This book was released on 2014. Magic in Christianity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The world of Jesus and the early Christians swarmed with prophets and exorcists, holy men and healers, who invoked angels and demons, gods and ghosts. Magic in Christianity: From Jesus to the Gnostics explores that world through the surviving texts of the first Christians and their pagan and Jewish contemporaries. Ecstatic spirit possession, handing opponents over to Satan, sending demons into swine, striking others dead on the spot by pronouncing curses, using articles of clothing and parts of corpses to perform magical healing and exorcism, invoking ghosts and angels for protection-these are all ancient Christian practices described in the New Testament, explained in detail by early Christian writers, and preserved by Christian amulets. Pagans and Jews accused Jesus and his followers of practicing magic and Christians accused one another of sorcery. Both pagan and early orthodox writers describe the rituals of the Gnostic sects in detail, including the magical passwords required to cross through the gates of the lower heavens. Magic in Christianity: From Jesus to the Gnostics examines evidence from the New Testament, the first Christian apologists, early apocryphal works, curse tablets and amulets to reconstruct the apocalyptic magical world of Jesus and the first Christians.
Ancient Christian Magic
Ancient Christian Magic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ancient Christian Magic write by Marvin W. Meyer. This book was released on 1999-04-04. Ancient Christian Magic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This thought-provoking collection of magical texts from ancient Egypt shows the exotic rituals, esoteric healing practices, and incantatory and supernatural dimensions that flowered in early Christianity. These remarkable Christian magical texts include curses, spells of protection from "headless powers" and evil spirits, spells invoking thunderous powers, descriptions of fire baptism, and even recipes from a magical "cookbook." Virtually all the texts are by Coptic Christians, and they date from about the 1st-12th centuries of the common era, with the majority from late antiquity. By placing these rarely seen texts in historical context and discussing their significance, the authors explore the place of healing, prayer, miracles, and magic in the early Christian experience, and expand our understanding of Christianity and Gnosticism as a vital folk religion.
Origen Against Celsus (Complete)
Origen Against Celsus (Complete) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Origen Against Celsus (Complete) write by Origen. This book was released on 1660-01-01. Origen Against Celsus (Complete) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Jesus the Magician
Jesus the Magician - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jesus the Magician write by Smith, Morton. This book was released on 2014-08-27. Jesus the Magician available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A twentieth-century classic, uncannily smart, incredibly learned."--from the foreword by Bart Ehrman This book challenges traditional Christian teaching about Jesus. While his followers may have seen him as a man from heaven, preaching the good news and working miracles, Smith asserts that the truth about Jesus is more interesting and rather unsettling. The real Jesus, only barely glimpsed because of a campaign of disinformation, obfuscation, and censorship by religious authorities, was not Jesus the Son of God. In actuality he was Jesus the Magician. Smith marshals all the available evidence including, but not limited to, the Gospels. He succeeds in describing just what was said of Jesus by "outsiders," those who did not believe him. He deals in fascinating detail with the inevitable questions. What was the nature of magic? What did people at that time mean by the term "magician"? Who were the other magicians, and how did their magic compare with Jesus' works? What facts led to the general assumption that Jesus practiced magic? And, most important, was that assumption correct? The ramifications of Jesus the Magician give new meaning to the word controversial. This book recovers a vision of Jesus that two thousand years of suppression and polemic could not erase. And--what may be the central point of the debate--Jesus the Magician strips away the myths and legends that have obscured Jesus, the man who lived.
The Top Change
The Top Change - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Top Change write by Magic Christian. This book was released on 2018-07. The Top Change available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
