Barrie Wilson
Autor de How Jesus Became Christian
Sobre El Autor
Barrie Wilson is professor of humanities and religious studies at York University in Toronto. A specialist in early Christian origins, this is his first book intended for a general audience. Building on contemporary critical scholarship, it addresses some of the major puzzles he has identified mostrar más while teaching biblical studies over a twenty-year period. An award-winning educator, his previous academic books focused on textual interpretation. For more information please visit www.barriewilson.com. mostrar menos
Obras de Barrie Wilson
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Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Wilson, Barrie
- Otros nombres
- Wilson, Barrie A. (fuller name)
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1940-11-19
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- Canada
- Educación
- Bishop's University (BA)
Columbia University (MA|Philosophy of Religion)
University of Toronto (PhD|Philosophy and Near Eastern Studies) - Organizaciones
- York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (professor, Humanities & Religious Studies)
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- Obras
- 6
- Miembros
- 206
- Popularidad
- #107,332
- Valoración
- 3.8
- Reseñas
- 2
- ISBNs
- 23
- Idiomas
- 1
Wilson’s portrayal of conflicting religions—the “Jesus movement” of the Jews, and the “Christ movement” of Paul—makes for fascinating reading. Paul experienced a mystical vision of the Christ, and everything he teaches flows from that deep, spiritual, ongoing connection between Christ and Paul. What used to be so simple became a complex theology, Paul’s message that all could be saved in Christ resounding throughout the Roman world.
Wilson discusses the book of Acts and its “revisionist history,” entwining Paul’s world with the Jesus movement as if they are one and the same, and concludes that there is simply no corroborating evidence for the Acts version. Instead, Paul’s letters betray an entirely different atmosphere. The Book of Acts invented history, and the version of Christianity we know today is better labeled “Paulinity.” The Jesus movement slowly faded away. In effect, the Jesus Cover-Up Thesis contends that early Christianity effectively killed off the historical Jesus. In the epilogue, Wilson encourages recovering the human Jesus and rediscovering his Jewish roots.
A thought-provoking and well-written book, definitely worth reading.… (más)