Perhaps you've heard these claims, or ones similar in nature:
• Jesus was a high priest of the ancient Egyptian religion of Isis and Osiris.
• Jesus was a mythical person created by stealing from pagan mystery religions.
• Jesus was just one of numerous "crucified saviors" found in various ancient religions.
• The main features of Jesus’ birth, life, and death are reworkings of older myths and legends.
Each is addressed in my article, "Jesus and the Pagan Gods," published in the May 2006 issue of This Rock, now available online on the Catholic Answers website. And don't miss the excellent cover article, "Was Jesus Married?", penned by Mark Brumley (when does he find the time?!).
Also made available online recently is my Touchstone review (Dec. 2004) of The Making of the New Spirituality: The Eclipse of the Western Religious Tradition (IVP, 2003) by James A. Herrick, which I laud for being "an analytically superior work, copiously noted, and temperate in tone."
That's curious. My post didn't post. Anyway, nice job MB.
Posted by: Ed Peters | Monday, December 04, 2006 at 08:29 PM
Ed: It did. On the post below.
Posted by: Carl Olson | Monday, December 04, 2006 at 10:07 PM
The mind is the first thing to go. On me, it never quite arrived.
Posted by: Ed Peters | Tuesday, December 05, 2006 at 05:17 AM
CEO, EP, not MB...
Posted by: Brian John Schuettler | Tuesday, December 05, 2006 at 05:59 AM