Lewis, have described elements of Christianity, particularly the story of Christ, as " myth " which is also " true ".

In terms of values, Leeming contrasts " the myth of Jesus " with the myths of other " Christian heroes such as St. George, Roland, el Cid, and even King Arthur "; the latter hero myths, Leeming argues, reflect the survival of pre-Christian heroic values —" values of military dominance and cultural differentiation and hegemony "— more than the values expressed in the Christ story. Pomors often depicted Sirin s on the illustrations in the Book of Genesis as birds sitting in paradise trees.

Since Arthur Drews published his The Christ Myth ( Die Christusmythe ) in 1909, occasional connections have been drawn between the modern idea that Christ was a myth and docetist theories.

In Biblical myth, the archetype is alluded to in the descendants of Adam crushing the head of the Serpent, and in Christian mythology, this was interpreted as corresponding to Christ as the " New Adam " crushing the Devil.

By the time of Christ, the Greco-Roman world had started to use the term " myth " ( Greek muthos ) to mean " fable, fiction, lie "; as a result, the early Christian theologians used " myth " in this sense.

Further, in academic writing, though " myth " usually means a fundamental worldview story, even there it is occasionally ambiguous or clearly denotes " falsehood ", as in the " Christ myth theory ".

Tolkien's opinion was adopted by another Christian writer, C. S. Lewis, in their conversations: " Tolkien explained to Lewis that the story of Christ was the true myth at the very heart of history and at the very root of reality.

" C. S. Lewis freely called the Christ story a " true myth ", and he believed that even pagan myths express spiritual truths.

This is why Bearden focuses on Christ ’ s body first, to portray the idea of the myth, and then highlights the crowd, to show how the idea is passed on to men.

Interpretations of the unicorn myth focus on the medieval lore of beguiled lovers, whereas some religious writers interpret the unicorn and its death as the Passion of Christ.

Freke is perhaps best known for his books, co-authored with Peter Gandy, which advocate a Gnostic understanding of early Christianity and the Christ myth theory, including The Jesus Mysteries: Was the " Original Jesus " a Pagan God?

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Category: Christ myth

Category: Christ myth

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Thus, from Eliade's perspective, the Christ story becomes the perfect myth for modern man.

" However, Wells insists that this line of first-century traditions is separate from the sacrificial Christ myth of Paul's epistles and other early documents, and that these two traditions have different origins.

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* El Cristo de Velázquez ( The Christ of Velázquez ) ( 1920 ) — a religious work, divided into four parts, where Unamuno analyzes the figure of Christ from different perspectives: as a symbol of sacrifice and redemption, as a reflection on his Biblical names ( Christ the myth, Christ the man on the cross, Christ, God, Christ the Eucharist ), as poetic meaning, as painted by Diego Velázquez, etc.

Limbo is a theory that unbaptized but innocent souls, such as those of infants, virtuous individuals who lived before Jesus Christ was born on earth, or those that die before baptism must wait before going to heaven.

In the 2nd century, with his theory of " recapitulation ", Saint Irenaeus connected " Christ the Creator " with " Christ the Savior ", relying on (" when the times reach their fulfillment – to bring unity to all things in heaven and on earth under Christ ") to gather together and wrap up the cycle of the Nativity and Resurrection of Christ.

In the 2nd century, Church Father Saint Irenaeus expressed his views of salvation as in terms of the imitation of Christ and his theory of " recapitulation ".

The United Church of Christ ( UCC ) is the result of a union constructed according to congregationalist theory between the Evangelical and Reformed Church and the Congregational Christian Churches.

It did not however impose the Aristotelian theory of substance and accidents: it spoke only of the species ( the appearances ), not the philosophical term " accidents ", and the word " substance " was in ecclesiastical use for many centuries before Aristotelian philosophy was adopted in the West, as shown for instance by its use in the Nicene Creed which speaks of Christ having the same " οὐσία " ( Greek ) or " substantia " ( Latin ) as the Father.

* Traditional doctrines that ( they believe ) malign God's character or veil the true nature and mission of Jesus Christ, such as the doctrines of predestination, eternal damnation, and the vicarious sacrifice or satisfaction theory of the Atonement are rejected.

Christian Science theology is sometimes criticized by mainstream Christians because of its assertion that evil and the material world are illusions, its definition of the " Christ ", its explanation of the Trinity, its de-emphasis on a personal God and its rejection of anthropomorphism, its rejection of the teaching of everlasting damnation, and its view of Jesus as the " Way-shower " ( see moral influence theory of atonement ) rather than as one whose death per se provided for humanity's atonement for sin.

Several theories include that it is Christ in triumph and shown as a priest, God the Father, or the Holy Trinity amalgamated into a single person ( the fact that the figure is wearing a triple tiara might lend some credence to this theory ).

Doherty argues for a version of the Christ myth theory, the view that Jesus did not exist as an historical figure.

Wells, who has authored a number of books arguing a moderate form of the " Christ myth " theory.

He charged that their theory permitted the division of the two hypostases of Christ just as Nestorius taught.

However, Paul of Tarsus speaks of two ways, at least in theory, to achieve righteousness: through the Torah, the law of Moses ; and through faith in the atonement made possible through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, ().

David Strauss, the 19th century founder of Christ myth theory.

The term " Christ myth theory " is an umbrella term that applies to a range of arguments that in one way or another question the authenticity of the existence of Jesus or the essential elements of his life as described in the Christian gospels.

In 1835, the methodical writings of David Friedrich Strauss caused an uproar in Europe, and Strauss became known as the founder of Christ myth theory, his approach having been influenced by the epistemological views of Leibniz and Spinoza.

By the beginning of the 20th century, Arthur Drews, William B. Smith and John M. Robertson became the most recognized proponents of the Christ myth theory.

Wells, Swedish professor of English language Alvar Ellegård, and philosopher and theologian Robert M. Price produced a number of arguments to support the Christ myth theory.

it is Astarte, Ishtar, Venus, Yahwe, Dionysus, Christ, the mysterious and divine orgone energy flowing through the body of the universe.

For the most part, however, the new version is contemporary and, as such, should be the means for many to attain a clearer comprehension of the meaning of those words recorded so many hundreds of years ago by the first followers of Christ.

Indeed, it is even surprising in the Canon of Christ Church and Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History, who fathered this most peculiar view, and in the brilliant Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge, who inherited it and is now its most eminent proponent.

We find it in that `` common way of life pleasing to Christ and still in use among the truest societies of Christians '', that is, the better monasteries which made it easier to convert the Utopians to Christianity.

As things now stand, there is a grievous disparity between the unity in Christ which we profess in ecumenical meetings and the complacent separateness of most congregations on any Main Street in the nation.

However needed this may be, the fundamental problem is not information but active commitment to the total mission of the church of Christ in the world.

It is an experience of a new depth of community derived from an awareness of the corporate indwelling of Christ in His people.

It is not stirring them to confront the racial tensions of today with the mind of Christ.

There must first be a deeper sense that the church belongs not to us but to Christ, and that it is His purpose, not our own interests and preferences, that determines what it is to be and do.

It would doubtless be greatly surprised to be told that in failing to be ecumenical it is really failing to be the Church of Christ.

Expressed differently: if the price for becoming a faithful follower of Jesus Christ is some form of self-destruction, whether of the body or of the mind -- sacrificium corporis, sacrificium intellectus -- then there is no alternative but that the price remain unpaid.

Christ is both unique and universal.

for it prepares the way for the passage from life through death to life that is achieved in Christ.

It is idle to ask why we are no longer disturbed if somebody, professing the deepest piety, decides anew that it is of no importance whether or not Christ transformed the water into wine at eleven A.M. on the third of August, A.D. 32.

I believe, therefore, that we are without exception sinners, by nature alienated from God, and that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, came to earth, the representative Head of a new race, to die upon the cross and pay the penalty of the sin of the world, and that he who thus receives Christ as his personal Saviour is `` born again '' spiritually, with new privileges, appetites, and affections, destined to live and grow in His likeness forever.

I discern no limits to a faith vested in God and Christ, who is the sum of all wisdom and knowledge, and daring to trust Him even though called to stand alone before the world.

When that fear has been removed by faith in Jesus Christ, when we know that He is our Savior, that He has paid our debt with His blood, that He has met the demands of God's justice and thus has turned His wrath away -- when we know that, we have peace with God in our hearts ; ;

In their case, the god of this world ( Satan ) has blinded their unbelieving minds, that they should not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God.