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  • Critical Times for America
    Burton L. Mack / Burton LMack
    Human societies live and breathe through their myths. A myth is not a simple story; it is the complex social reasoning of a people, a way of making sense of the world. Burton Mack calls this reasoning ''social logic,'' and as a master of ancient Rome and the rise of Christianity, he knows that the Western experience has been embedded in the Christian myth as its ''big picture''...
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    17,11 €

  • Myth and the Christian Nation
    Burton L. Mack
    America is widely regarded as the ultimate 'Christian Nation.' Religious language has always been at the forefront of American politics but this has increased since the events of 9/11. ’Myth and the Christian Nation’ presents a startling analysis of how and why Christianity and national identity have been woven together in recent American political discourse. Drawing on example...
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    74,33 €

  • Patterns of Persuasion in the Gospels
    Burton L. Mack / Burton LMack / Vernon K. Robbins / Vernon KRobbins
    ''Patterns of Persuasion in the Gospels will open the next stage in Synoptic studies. Mack and Robbins have returned synoptic criticism to the road it missed when Bultmann and Dibelius decided to ingnore Greco-Roman education and rhetoric. Starting from a sophisticated and detailed study of what the rhetorical handbooks say about the elaboratioin of chreiai, they illuminate the...
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    27,49 €

  • The Christian Myth
    Burton Mack
    This book traces Burton Mack’s intellectual evolution, from a creative analyst of ancient texts, to a scholar searching for the motives and interests of Jesus’s followers who composed those texts, and for the social logic of "the Christian myths" they created. Mack rejects depictions of Jesus that have emerged from the quest for the "historical Jesus"--peasant teacher, revoluti...
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    45,91 €