Pagan Christs. E-book. Formato EPUB John M. Robertson   -  Passerino, 2023  - 

Pagan Christs is a book by John M. Robertson, originally published in 1903. This work is a critical examination of the historical and mythological aspects of various religious traditions, particularly focusing on the parallels between pagan myths and the story of Jesus Christ in Christianity. "Pagan Christs" challenges conventional religious beliefs by presenting a comprehensive analysis of the similarities between the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ and the stories of various pagan deities from ancient mythologies. Robertson argues that many elements of the Christian narrative, including the virgin birth, crucifixion, and resurrection, can be traced back to earlier mythological figures and cults.John Mackinnon Robertson (14 November 1856 – 5 January 1933) was a prolific Scottish journalist, advocate of rationalism and secularism, and Liberal Member of Parliament for Tyneside from 1906 to 1918. Robertson was best known as an advocate of the Christ myth theory.

Christianity and Mythology. E-book. Formato PDF John M. Robertson   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

Other avocations have made difficult the due revision of this book in the light of the manifold hierological discussion of the past ten years. Since, however, I have seen no reason to give up any of its main contentions, and the growing interest in the central problem is expressed by the demand for a new edition, I have made shift to improve and expand it at the many points that had obtruded them selves for fuller consideration in the course of my general reading. And there is the further reason for removing the out-oi-print bar under which the book has lately lain, that, latterly as formerly, its most prominent theological critics are industrious in misrepresenting its positions. In this respect neo-unitarians and Trinitarians seem to be at one.

The Saxon and the Celt: A Study in Sociology. E-book. Formato PDF John Mackinnon Robertson   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

In view of such incoherence, which will be found exemplified in nearly every form Of the race-doctrine dealt with in the follow ing pages, it will at least be allowed to be worth arguing whether the doctrine be not fundamentally fallacious, and whether we ought not to look for the cause of differences of national culture and well-being in institutions, political and other, and for the cause of these in preliminary conditions of environment, natural and political — in anything, in short, rather than in primordial and perpetual qualities Of race. The suggestion may seem the more specious, at least, when it is found that all the methods yet employed to make out a case for one race, as the Teutonic, can be and have been employed to make out a contrary case for the other, as in that very pro-celtic treatise T be [view Exegesis of Slzakspere (1859) attributed by M. Littre', in his review of it, to a Mr o'connell, but fitted to serve, in respect of its utter arbi trariness of theory, as a typical example Of a kind of philosophy Often held to be peculiarly Teutonic.