Summer Reading Series I The Pagan Christ: Recovering the lost Light, Tom Harpur, 2004, Thomas Allen Publisher, Toronto. When Christianity is abandoned with disdain and the church desperate in juggling a place of relevance in the modern world, Tom Harpur chooses to shake it from the bottom and provide interpretations that may give religion in general a new lease of life. Harpur comes from a deeply religious Judeo-Christian background, with ten years of Anglican priesthood training, and for about another ten years, teaching as a professor of the New Testament and Greek at the Toronto School of Theology's Wycliffe College. Influenced by Northrop Frye, and drawing on findings and resources of Orientalists & Egyptologist Godfrey Higgins(1771-1834), Gerald Massey(1828-1908), and Alvin Boyd Kuhn (1880-1963), Harpur develops a profound new understanding of religion. Sigmund Freud determined that the Bible was a total plagiarism of the Sumerian and Egyptian mythologies. Ha
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