The author's point of view. Book by Eliseo Ferrer: "The Christian Myth, According to the Texts".
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: FROM THE ORPHIC–PLATONIC MYTH OF DIVINE INCARNATION (OF PRIMITIVE CHRISTIAN GNOSIS) TO THE LATE JUDAIZATION, CARNALIZATION, AND HISTORIZATION OF ECCLESIASTICAL CHRISTIANITY This work offers an exhaustive analysis of the Christian myth, subordinated in its formal part to the diachronic and historical segment encompassing the period between the Hellenistic context of the first century BCE (Alexandrian Middle Platonism, Samaritan mysticism, Hellenistic Judaism of the Decapolis, Hellenized Judaism of the Alexandrian, Syrian, and Mesopotamian diaspora, etc.) and the foundation of the apostolic Christianity of the Church at the end of the second century. Two long centuries in which the ideological and soteriological structure of the myth experienced an extraordinary evolution: from the meaning of the Orphic-Platonic myth of the descent and incarnation of divinity (as soul-spirit) in early Christian mysticism to the radical denial of mythical discourse by the Church, through an ideological structure and a narrative discourse that ended up denying the "rationality" of myth from much older frameworks, typical of the magical thinking implicit in Catholic dogmatism. The church, in short, transformed the Greek myth of the incarnation of divinity into a historical fiction recreated through Jewish references and scenarios taken from the texts of the Septuagint Bible.
DOI: 10.17613/a7m2g-wt344
Author: Erdozáin, Celia
Institution: Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Language: English
Subfield: Religious studies
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7105813781
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