Our Sun God (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Christianity Before ChristBy John Denham Parsons
Length4h 5m
About this audiobook
In Our Sun God, John Denham Parsons offers a provocative late-Victorian study of Christianity through the lens of comparative mythology and solar symbolism. The book argues that central Christian images, festivals, and doctrines preserve older patterns of sun worship, placing the figure of Christ within a wider history of dying-and-rising savior gods. Its style is learned, polemical, and densely allusive, characteristic of an era fascinated by origins, philology, and the comparative study of religion. Parsons was a British writer associated with rationalist and heterodox currents of thought, best known for works that questioned inherited religious and cultural assumptions. His interest in symbolic survivals, ancient ritual, and the pre-Christian roots of Christian practice reflects the intellectual climate shaped by Victorian anthropology, biblical criticism, and freethought. Our Sun God emerges from this milieu as both historical inquiry and challenge to orthodox belief. This book is recommended for readers interested in mythicist interpretations of Christianity, the history of religious skepticism, and nineteenth-century comparative religion. While modern scholarship may dispute many of Parsons's conclusions, the work remains valuable as a revealing document of radical Victorian religious criticism and as a stimulating study of how solar myth was once used to reinterpret Christian tradition.
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GenreSpirituality and Religion
Length4 hrs 5 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJan 2, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Paganism Surviving in Christianity (Annotated)
2PART I. FROM A BROAD CHURCH POINT OF VIEW.
3Chapter I. Pauline Christianity.
4PART II FROM A GNOSTIC POINT OF VIEW.
5Chapter II. Christianity in Existence Before Christ.
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6Chapter III. The Beginning.
7Chapter IV. The Hebrew Scriptures.
8Chapter V. The Sun-God Iaou (Jehovah).
9Chapter VI. Non-Jewish Evidence Concerning Iaou.
10Chapter VII. The Origin and Date of Genesis.
11Chapter VIII. The Sun-God of the New Testament.
12Chapter IX. Sun-God Worship in the Days of the Fathers.
13Chapter X. The Sun-God of Philosophy.
14Memorable Quotes
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