The Christ Myth - A Critical Review and Analysis of the Evidence of His Existence

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By the Christ is understood the Jesus of the New Testament. The Jesus of the New Testament is the Christ of Christianity. The Jesus of the New Testament is a supernatural being.

He is, like the Christ, a myth. He is the Christ myth/5(5). The Christ Myth - A Critical Review and Analysis of the Evidence of His Existence. This volume on "The Christ" was written by one who recognizes in the Jesus of Strauss and Renan a transitional step, but not the ultimate step, between orthodox Christianity and radical Freethought.

By the Christ is understood the Jesus of the New Testament/5(9). The Jesus of the New Testament is a supernatural being. He is, like the Christ, a myth.

He is the Christ myth. Originally the word Christ, the Greek for the Jewish Messiah, “the anointed,” meant the office or title of a person, while Jesus was the name of the person on whom his followers had bestowed this title/5(4).

Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for The Christ Myth - A Critical Review And Analysis Of The Evidence Of His Existence at /5(4). His conclusion is that the divine, miracle-working Christ of traditional Christianity is a myth, which was developed over many centuries by a community of believers and was heavily influenced by mythic elements of Greek, Roman, and eastern : John E.

Remsberg. By the Christ is understood the Jesus of the New Testament. The Jesus of the New Testament is the Christ of Christianity. The Jesus of the New Testament is a supernatural being. He is, like the Christ, a myth.

He is the Christ myth. Please Note: This book is easy to read in true text, not scanned images that can sometimes be difficult to decipher. The Christ Myth A Critical Review And Analysis Of The Evidence Of His Existence The Christ Myth A Critical Review And Analysis Of The Evidence Of His Existence by John E.

Remsberg. Topics like the Christ, a myth. He is the Christ myth. Addeddate Identifier. Furthermore, Remsburg prevents the strawmaning of the Christ Myth Theory into the pure myth category that it in reality never was in to begin with. There was a problem loading comments right now.

Please try again later. There was a problem loading comments right now/5. The Christ: a critical review and analysis of the evidences of His existence by Remsburg, John E. (John Eleazer), Pages: Strauss in his work, one of the masterpieces of Freethought literature, endeavors to prove, and proves to the satisfaction of a majority of his readers, that Jesus Christ is a historical myth.

This work possesses permanent value, but it was written for the scholar and not for the general reader. Editorial Reviews. Popular Freethinker Remsberg () applies textual criticism and logical analysis to the New Testament, contemporary pagan authors, and later Christian apologists, and concludes (as surely he suspected he would) that while a man named Jesus may have lived a life similar to that portrayed in the Christian scripture, the supernatural Christ of Christian dogma could Pages: 1.

The Christ: A Critical Review and Analysis of the Evidences of His Existence. Download; Bibrec; Bibliographic Record. Author: Remsburg, John E. (John Eleazer), LoC No. Title: The Christ: A Critical Review and Analysis of the Evidences of His Existence Language: English: LoC Class: BL: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion.

Read Grant's book or the Boyd/Eddy book. The Gospels are the evidence you are looking for. Josephus also stands (both passages, one partially authentic), see the long detailed chapter on Josephus in J.P. Holding's book. Did you forget that even G.A. Wells says he never fully believed the "Christ-myth" claim (see his book which I quoted).

The Christ, though written many years ago, is still timely in its showing that while Jesus lived, Christ is a myth.

Particularly useful are all the references to other religions and beliefs in the ancient world showing that very little in Christianity was new. This book should be read by theists and atheists/5(14). The Christ Myth, first published inwas a book by Arthur Drews on the Christ myth theory.

Drews (–), along with Bruno Bauer (–) and Albert Kalthoff (–), is one of the three German pioneers of the denial of the existence of a historical : Arthur Drews. John E. Remsburg,The Christ: A critical review and analysis of the evidences of His existence.

Gospels rife with contradictions. Doubtful that Jesus existed and a supernatural Christ. John E. Remsburg, in his classic book The Christ: A Critical Review and Analysis of the Evidence of His Existence 1 lists the following contemporary historians/writers who lived during the time, or within a century after the time, that Jesus was supposed to have lived: Apollonius Persius Appian Petronius.

The Christ () The Christ: A Critical Review and Analysis of the Evidence of His Existence was reprinted in and was republished under the title Christ Myth in An e-book version (linked previously) was issued in FootnotesBorn: January 7,Fremont, Ohio, USA.

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Search Name. The Christ myth theory (also known as the Jesus myth theory, Jesus mythicism, or the Jesus ahistoricity theory) is the view that "the story of Jesus is a piece of mythology", possessing no "substantial claims to historical fact".

Alternatively, in terms given by Bart Ehrman paraphrasing Earl Doherty, "the historical Jesus did not ption: The story of Jesus of Nazareth is basically .G.A. Wells (‘The Historicity of Jesus’) and Morton Smith (‘The Historical Jesus’) in Jesus in History and Myth (ed.

R. Joseph Hoffmann and Gerald Larue; Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, ). John E. Remsberg, The Christ: A Critical Review and Analysis of his Existence (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, [orig., ]).File Size: KB.“Many of the stories concerning Moses, Joshua, Jonah and other Bible characters are solar myths.” John E.

Remsburg, The Christ: A Critical Review and Analysis of the Evidence of His Existence The fact of biblical astrotheology often is either unknown or denied by the public at large, but there is plenty of solar, lunar and astral mythology in the Bible.