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Earliest Christianity (70-313 CE) fully included core religious experience and knowledge, but was more centrally or primarily concerned with providing an...
... sense of ... Fundamentalist ... The book is: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0802846602 Revelation and the End of All Things, by Craig R. Koester....
The relationship between the original Christian socio-political, supernaturalist, and esoteric dimensions The overarching question of interpreting Christianity...
Hello, I just joined the list and am making my way slowly through the website. I certainly do not claim to be at an intellectual "level" where I can claim to...
... A funny more recent publishing event that's related: in the current issue of Tikkun, Martin Marty's article on violence in all religions is grouped with ...
... That book seems to be a good summary of recent good scholarship such as this longer, more detailed book, which is also excellent: Unveiling Empire: Reading...
Thank you Michael for your reply. I can see that we are kind of coming at things from two different backgrounds but seem to be arriving at a lot of the same...
I think that the fact that there is no "time" is something that has been very much "overlooked" by ACIM students. I also very much like the book you mentioned....
o The orthodox supernaturalist literalists know Christ is really about sin, guilt, moral culpability, forgiveness (or not), and perdition, and supernaturalist...
A panoply of aspects, avatars & masks. http://www.catholicsupply.com/christmas/othersports.html http://www.catholicsupply.com/christmas/football.html New!...
Thinking aloud in retrospect .. I was sorting through some of my old "processing" notes a few minutes ago and came across the statement .. "By removing the...
Why we feel rejected? By Bhadra Dasi. One of the most commonly withhold or concealed things by the parents is tentative of abortion (afflicted moon). Do you...
Enlightenment enables saying the same words as before but with a new matrix of meaning. We can't point to any words and say "only an egoic mind would say ...
When I came onto the computer a few years ago...after another relationship failure, I found an entire world here that I never knew existed....and through this...
... Rieser explains that the Jewish Diaspora started Christianity. It was soon taken over & fully Hellenized by the lower class throughout the Roman Empire ...
Scanning through the posts, I think it was Mr. Hoffman who remarked on the uselessness, the failure, of Zen. What makes anyone think that entheogenic...
Check out these MP3's I found, lots of good entheogen and psychedelic-related material; several discussions of egodeath too: http://nvo.com/cd/trip TEXT: ...
How entheogen research can improve the world, and how improving the world can help entheogen research I suspect that the ego, and the whole Christian...
The success of a domain must first of all be measured in terms of its value system and its own set of goals. A distinction must also be made between its ...
Empty-headed people portray their entheogen experiences in empty-headed ways. Do not confuse the way empty-headed people characterize and report entheogen ...
Can we credit Christianity, whether the low supernaturalist Literalist type or the high, Gnostic, enlightened type, with sustaining and making possible a ...
The allegorical and metaphorical meaning of the Cross is a tremendous challenge to reason. Applying a very rationalistic, problem-solving mentality to the...
... evil and deserve to go to hell. And no one else is any different. Christians ...believe that God, as a loving Father, did not wish to see us get what we ...
To understand the Christian myth-system, you have to understand the character of Hellenistic mythic allegory, which amounts to clever tragi-comic storytelling...
For the human body, which cannot be separated from anything else at all, we cannot take a diseased "cell".........and try to shove down it...a "healthy" ...
