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Download: $25.00 Lecture Series; Introduction to Religion, with Dr. Robert M. Price.
13 hours and 40 minutes of lecture in 12 episodes;
(1) Definition of Religion: Scientific versus Theological study of Religion. Clifford Geertz: Religion as a Cultural System of Symbols
(2) Did Religion begin with Space Aliens? Animism? Magic? Fetishism? Ancestor Worship?
(3) Nature Worship and Totemism
(4) Freud, Feuerbach, and Jung on religion
(5) Sociology of Knowledge: Berger & Luckmann
(6) Religion and Violence: James Frazer & Rene Girard
(7) The Essential of Religion: Schleiermacher & Otto
(8) Sacred Space and Sacred Time
(9) Rites of Passage
(10) Natural versus Revealed Religions
(11) Church, Sect, and Cult
(12) Myths and Religious Symbols
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Download: $25.00 "Modern" is taken to be after the publication of Origin of Species in 1859 by Charles Darwin.
Lecture #1 - Evolution and the Enlightenment: Darwin, Kant, Lessing, and Spinoza.
Lecture #2 - Higher Criticism and the Historical Jesus: Hermann Samuel Reimarus, David Friedrich Strauss, and Albert Schweitzer.
Lecture #3 - Friedrich Schleiermacher.
Lecture #4 - Albrecht Ritschl and Adolf von Harnack.
Lecture #5 - Walter Rauschenbusch and the Social Gospel.
Lecture #6 - Fundamentalism: a re-tooled version of the Old Time Religion designed to meet the challenge of Modernism.
Lecture #7 - Karl Barth.
Lecture #8 - Rudolf Karl Bultmann and Demythologizing.
Lecture #9 - Paul Tillich.
Lecture #10 - Theology of Hope, Liberation Theology, Black Theology, Feminist Theology: the briefest survey.
Lecture #11 - Process Theology.
Lecture #12 - Theology of Contextualization or Indigenization.
Lecture #13 - Death of God Theology & Postmodern Theologies.
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World ReligionsWorld Religions (multimedia download)
Download: $25.00 Intro, Hinduism, Indus Valley civilization, Dravidian religion. Aryan invaders, castes, scriptures, system of sacrifices. The Vedic Gods, Vedas to Vedanta; Shankara on higher knowledge. The Vedanta thinkers (Shankara, Ramanuja, Madhva); maya, Yoga, Karma, Reincarnation. Buddhism: founder, Buddha's life and legend. three Marks of Existence. Nirvana. Mahayana Buddhism; Bodhisattva doctrine, doctrine of the Void. Zen, Pure Land, and Vajrayana (Tibetan) Buddhism. Samkhya Philosophy and Patanjali's Yoga; Jainism; Sikhism; Zoroastrianism. Confucianism and Taoism. Religion of Ancient Israel, Rabbinic Judaism. Jewish Kosher laws, holidays; mishnah, Talmud, and Kabbalah. Messiahs Simon bar Kochba, Sabbatai Sevi, Jacob Frank. Christian Origins; Christological controversies; atonement theories; Trinity. Differences in Eastern Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism, and Protestantism. Islamic Origins and tenets. Revisionist Theories of Islamic Origins; Sufism, Zaid'is, Ismail'is, Twelver Shi'ites, Druze, Baha'is, and Ahmadiyya.
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Print: $8.79 The Journal of Higher Criticism, founded in 1994, is a scholarly periodical featuring articles on Jewish, Christian, Islamic, and Mormon origins/scriptures, utilizing the insights and methods of the great Higher Critics of yesteryear, lamentably neglected today: Julius Wellhausen, D.F. Strauss, F.C. Baur, Bruno Bauer, W.C. van Manen, etc. Our approach might be characterized as radical or even ultra-radical, rather than trying to give equal time to all voices, since all the others have plentiful and ready forums elsewhere.
Submissions are welcome and will be judged on the basis of quality, not on name recognition, resume, or institutional affiliation. Those deemed promising but not of professional calibre may yet be posted on our website for discussion.
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Print: $24.97 What is a gospel? And why do I consider the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar to be one? Isn't a gospel by definition one of the books of the Bible? If so, then nothing written in recent centuries could be counted as a gospel. This is because the "canon" of scripture (the official table of contents) was settled back in the fourth century C.E. Who settled the matter? Who decided what writings should be included, excluded? Various synods of bishops meeting here and there in North Africa and Rome. Who gave them the authority to make such a decision? Keep in mind that the Bible is a book many people have lived by and died for, believing the book to be the written Word of God. But no one ever claimed that the voice of God suddenly rang out and told the bishops which books to include. Being an editor of fiction anthologies myself, I know this would make the selection process a lot simpler. But, no, like me, the bishops made their own judgment calls. Did they make the right choices?
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Print: $24.97 Robert M. Price has been studying and teaching (even preaching on) the Gospel of Thomas for many years. It has gradually become clearer and clearer to him. But at the same time, he has been mindful of the danger of making it too clear, reinterpreting it and whittling it down to size just so it won't seem so impenetrable and frustrating. In his commentary on the fifth gospel, Price preserves the balance: he shows how the text need not strike us as strange at all and yet how alien its assumptions are to our way of thinking.
While this book takes note of the opinions of various specialists on the Gospel of Thomas, it does not, like some of their books, choke on its own methodology. The result is a plain-spoken interpretation of this intriguing text against the ancient background of its writer, as far as we can reconstruct it. And of course, no matter how many books on the Gospel of Thomas one has read, one will assuredly find new insights here.
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Print: $24.97 Edwin Johnson (1842-1901), In Antiqua Mater Johnson examines a great variety of sources related to early Christianity "from outside scripture", coming to the conclusion that there was no reliable documental evidence to prove the existence of Jesus Christ or the Apostles. He asserts that Christianity had evolved from a Jewish Diaspora movement, he provisionally called the Hagioi. They adhered to a liberal interpretation of the Torah with simpler rites and a more spiritualized outlook. Hagioi is a Greek word meaning "saints", "holy ones", "believers", "loyal followers", or "God's people", and was usually used in reference to members of the early Christian communities. It is a term that was frequently used by Paul in the New Testament, and in a few places in Acts of the Apostles in reference to Paul's activities.
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by Hermann Detering
Forward translated into English
by Frans Joris Fabri
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Print: $28.41 As a young theologian Schweitzer published The Quest of the Historical Jesus (1906), by which he gained a great reputation. In this book, he interpreted the life of Jesus in the light of Jesus' own eschatological convictions. Schweitzer demonstrated that 19th century "liberal lives of Jesus" produced by those who sought to reimage Jesus through historical study were reflections of the authors' own historical and social contexts. This work effectively ended for decades the Quest for the Historical Jesus as a subdiscipline of New Testament studies, until the development of the so-called "Second Quest," among whose notable exponents was Rudolf Bultmann's student Ernst Käsemann.
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The Book of GenesisThe Book of Genesis (multimedia download)
Download: $27.00 Lectures on the Book of Genesis. 1) Chapter 1 of Genesis (Priestly creation account) and the first half of the Garden of Eden story (J creation story). 2) Conclusion of J creation account along with Gilgamesh and Prometheus parallels. 3) Cain and Abel stories, pre-Flood patriarchs, including their fantastic lifespans, the Sons of God and Daughters of men. 4) Flood in J, P, Gilgamesh, and Greek versions! The Tower of Babel and Table of Nations. 5) Abraham's itinerary, three versions of the "Lying Patriarch" story, two versions of Hagar and Ishmael, War against the Cheesemaker, the Covenant of circumcision. 6) Stories of Sodom & Gomorrah (with Judges 19 parallel), the Binding of Isaac, Abraham pruchasing Sarah's grave site and sending his servant to find a wife for Isaac. 7) Jacob and Esau, part 1. 8) Jacob's wrestling match, the rape and revenge of Dinah, death of the Matriarchs, Tamar and Judah, and the basic Osiris Myth. 9) The story of Joseph (Concluding Genesis)
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The Life of MosesThe Life of Moses (multimedia download)
Download: $12.50 The Life of Moses. Ten hours of audio lecture, by Dr. Robert M. Price, covering the life of Moses.
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Download: $25.00 An audio reading of the print book version we are offering. Each chapter, and forward and preface are individual mp3 files
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Download: $25.00 A line by line / saying by saying commentary by Dr. Robert M. Price of all 114 sayings of the Gospel of Thomas. 18 hours of mp3 audio files. Live recordings by Dr. Price
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Download: $25.00 The Bible Geek, Dr. Robert M. Price, episodes 101 - 110, .mp3 audio files for download, completed January 20, 2008, by
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Download: $25.00 Dr. Robert M. Price's The Bible Geek Q&A shows, episodes 91 - 100 from TheBibleGeek.org
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Download: $25.00 Dr. Robert M. Price's The Bible Geek Q&A shows, episodes 81 - 90 from TheBibleGeek.org
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Download: $25.00 Dr. Robert M. Price's The Bible Geek Q&A shows, episodes 71 - 80 from TheBibleGeek.org
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Download: $25.00 Dr. Robert M. Price's The Bible Geek Q&A shows, episodes 61 - 70 from TheBibleGeek.org
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Download: $25.00 Dr. Robert M. Price's The Bible Geek Q&A shows, episodes 51 - 60 from TheBibleGeek.org
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Download: $25.00 Dr. Robert M. Price's The Bible Geek Q&A shows, episodes 41 - 50 from TheBibleGeek.org
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Download: $25.00 Dr. Robert M. Price's The Bible Geek Q&A shows, episodes 31 - 40 from TheBibleGeek.org
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Download: $25.00 Dr. Robert M. Price's The Bible Geek Q&A shows, episodes 21 - 30 from TheBibleGeek.org
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Download: $25.00 Dr. Robert M. Price's The Bible Geek Q&A shows, episodes 11 - 20 from TheBibleGeek.org
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Download: $25.00 Dr. Robert M. Price's The Bible Geek Q&A shows, episodes 1 - 10 from TheBibleGeek.org
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