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Putting away childish things : the Virgin birth, the empty tomb, and other fairy tales you don't need to believe to have a living faith / Uta Ranke-Heinemann ; translated by Peter Heinegg.

By: Publication details: [San Francisco, Calif.] : HarperCollins c1994.Edition: 1st edDescription: x, 306 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0060668474
Uniform titles:
  • Nein und Amen. English.
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 225.6 20
Contents:
1. Luke's Christmas Fairy Tale -- 2. Matthew's Fairy Tale of Jesus' Childhood -- 3. The Virgin Mother -- 4. The Angels -- 5. Jesus' Genealogies -- 6. Miraculous Fairy Tales -- 7. Good Friday -- 8. The Fairy Tale of Judas the Traitor -- 9. Easter -- 10. The Ascension -- 11. Pentecost -- 12. The Fairy Tale of Acts -- 13. Peter in Rome? -- 14. The Apocrypha -- 15. Forgeries and False Authors -- 16. Hell -- 17. Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls -- 18. Redemption by Execution.
Summary: Feminist, historian, and radical religious scholar Uta Ranke-Heinemann caused a media sensation and sent shock waves through the Catholic world with her first international bestseller. Here she continues her showdown with the Church. Ranke-Heinemann reveals that ecclesiastical Christianity took the very human revolutionary prophet Jesus and converted him into a mythical God, surrounding him with the kinds of legendary stories and superhuman features associated with the pagan gods of the time. These "fairy tales for the Kingdom" were changed from effective teaching stories into doctrines to which a paternalistic Church demanded absolute allegiance. In the course of her investigation, she examines all the fundamentals of Christian belief: Christmas, the miracles, Good Friday, Easter, the Ascension, and more.Summary: Already a breakaway bestseller in Europe, Putting Away Childish Things challenges the basic assumptions of conventional Christianity and opens up a new vision of Christian faith, grounded in critical thinking, historical realism, and allegiance to Jesus' real message of freedom and hope.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Jessie Street National Women's Library General Stacks 225.6 RAN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available for reference in the library and ILL 55742

Includes index.

1. Luke's Christmas Fairy Tale -- 2. Matthew's Fairy Tale of Jesus' Childhood -- 3. The Virgin Mother -- 4. The Angels -- 5. Jesus' Genealogies -- 6. Miraculous Fairy Tales -- 7. Good Friday -- 8. The Fairy Tale of Judas the Traitor -- 9. Easter -- 10. The Ascension -- 11. Pentecost -- 12. The Fairy Tale of Acts -- 13. Peter in Rome? -- 14. The Apocrypha -- 15. Forgeries and False Authors -- 16. Hell -- 17. Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls -- 18. Redemption by Execution.

Feminist, historian, and radical religious scholar Uta Ranke-Heinemann caused a media sensation and sent shock waves through the Catholic world with her first international bestseller. Here she continues her showdown with the Church. Ranke-Heinemann reveals that ecclesiastical Christianity took the very human revolutionary prophet Jesus and converted him into a mythical God, surrounding him with the kinds of legendary stories and superhuman features associated with the pagan gods of the time. These "fairy tales for the Kingdom" were changed from effective teaching stories into doctrines to which a paternalistic Church demanded absolute allegiance. In the course of her investigation, she examines all the fundamentals of Christian belief: Christmas, the miracles, Good Friday, Easter, the Ascension, and more.

Already a breakaway bestseller in Europe, Putting Away Childish Things challenges the basic assumptions of conventional Christianity and opens up a new vision of Christian faith, grounded in critical thinking, historical realism, and allegiance to Jesus' real message of freedom and hope.

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