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		Harpur is right to censure the setting of dates, as are the majority of premillenarians, who have little trouble recognising in it an irresponsible, rash and arrogant activity.
		Harpur is perpetuating a common stereotype that millenarian thinkers are both irrational and prone to irrational acts.
		Harpur suggests that the antidote to this is the eschatological uniformitarianism that he espouses.
	www.isaacnewton.ca /media/rpt-Tom_Harper-Feb_26.htm (1226 words)

	Tom Harpur. Pagan Christ. Recycled Garbage.
		Harpur's book is merely a regurgitation of the absolute worst in "pagan copycat" theories, and serves as an example of material you'll be able to avoid once you use the hints I give on using sources critically.
		Harpur claims that "the greatest cover-up of all time" was perpetrated at the beginning of the fourth century; and that thousands of Christian scholars have a vested interest in maintaining the myth that there was an actual Jesus who lived in history.
		Harpur's childish screaming of "et tu" will not change the fact that none of these writers is recognized as credentialed in Egyptology, and have been preserved not by reputation in the field but by mystics and cultists and Theosophists who were also of no relevant credit.
	www.tektonics.org /harpur01.html (16680 words)

	Amazon.de: The Pagan Christ: English Books: Tom Harpur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Harpur, a former Anglican priest and professor of Greek and New Testament at the University of Toronto, delves into the foundations of the Christian faith, questioning the historicity of the Bible, reinterpreting the familiar stories and restoring what he considers the inner meaning of scriptural texts.
		Harpur believes that the early church establishment, through deliberate acts of suppression and the destruction of books that might challenge the orthodox view (most famously in the Alexandrian Library), shaped a rigid institution unable to cope with an evolving world.
		Harpur's arguments, themselves a rehash of earlier scholarship, are unlikely to convince readers who are not already inclined to his views.
	www.amazon.de /Pagan-Christ-Tom-Harpur/dp/0887621457 (590 words)

	Tom Harpur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In Harpur's words, "The vitalizing item of ancient knowledge was the prime datum that man is himself, in his real being, a spark of divine fire struck off like the flint flash from the Eternal Rock of Being, and buried in the flesh of body to support its existence with an unquenchable radiant energy.
		Harpur goes on to argue that this myth was never intended to be taken as a literal story about a supernatural person named Horus; instead, Horus symbolizes humanity itself.
		Harpur's book, The Pagan Christ will lead many, though for some after a difficult adaptation period, to a much better understanding of the fact that the Truth lies outside any religion, dogma or creed and that we are all a manifestation of one most powerful Source.
	www.tomharpur.com /Reviews/PaganChrist.asp (2690 words)

	Amazon.de: For Christ's Sake: English Books: Tom Harpur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Harpur draws on contemporary biblical scholarship to portray a fully human Jesus, who nevertheless did perform miracles, and whom God raised from the grave as a seal upon his message and ministry.
		As Tom Harpur rightly says, the teaching of the Church had too much focus on the person of Jesus and not on his teaching; on the Messenger and not on the Message itself.
		Tom Harpur used Bucke's term "cosmic consciousness" and I think it is a very good approach to understanding the relationship of man and God.
	www.amazon.de /Christs-Sake-Tom-Harpur/dp/080701012X (697 words)

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		A former Rhodes scholar and professor of New Testament studies at Wycliffe College, Toronto, Harpur is also an Anglican Priest (Episcopalian).
		Harpur's is a rare and a powerful voice.
		He writes with the knowledge of a scholar, the flair of a journalist, the concern of a pastor, and the wisdom of someone who has thought deeply about issues with an open, inquiring mind.
	www.angelfire.com /ca/yrotcerid/profile.htm (142 words)

	bound by gravity: Tom Harpur's "The Pagan Christ"
		Tom Harpur, is not a new name in Christian writing, in fact he has previously publishing fifteen other books.
		Harpur meticulously showcases the great efforts that early church fathers took to purge opposing religions from history by killing off their priests and burning their texts.
		Other interesting historical points that Harpur presents include proof that early practicioners of the fledgling Christian religion were still very attuned to the religions they had belonged to prior to the start of Christianity, including the priests.
	www.boundbygravity.com /archives/2004/07/tom_harpurs_the_pagan_christ.php (991 words)

	The Pagan Christ by Tom Harpur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In The Pagan Christ: Recovering the Lost Light, Harpur argues that Christ is a myth based on the deity Horus, the "Egyptian Christ".
		Harpur was a Rhodes scholar and divinity professor, so it's odd to find his book chock full of factual flubs.
		If Harpur's book, warts and all, helps us do this in the name of the "Christ within", it's a worthy tome.
	www.straight.com /node/2245/print (349 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Pagan Christ: Recovering the Lost Light: Books: Tom Harpur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Harpur does, however, repeat at many times that his writings are the story of his personal religious journey as aided by the authors he cites.
		To explain: literalists (and Harpur) speak of the soul as if it were a "thing," existing in time and space and history, with attributes such as size, position, shape, and colour, as do all other "things;" it's just that this one is invisible and non-material.
		So Harpur's book is a great first step, but he needs to complete his analysis; and to truly free ourselves, we must not only understand that the scriptures are metaphoric but so too are spirits and souls.
	www.amazon.ca /Pagan-Christ-Recovering-Lost-Light/dp/0887621457 (1608 words)

	U of T Bookstore Events » Tom Harpur interviewed by Mary Wiens
		Following the extraordinary and ongoing success of his 2004 book The Pagan Christ, scholar and author Tom Harpur was deluged with reader requests to go more deeply into the mythological, allegorical approach to the story of Jesus he took in that bestselling book.
		In Water Into Wine, Harpur sets out the powerful and transforming message that emerges when the Gospels are finally read as they were originally intended to be and as they were understood by the first Christians, such as Origen and Clement.
		Tom Harpur, columnist for the Toronto Star, Rhodes scholar, and former Anglican priest and professor of Greek and New Testament at the University of Toronto, is an internationally renowned writer on religious and ethical issues.
	events.uoftbookstore.com /2007/02/07/tom-harpur-interviewed-by-mary-weins (666 words)

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		Tom, I have called you on the phone and congratulated you on articles in The Toronto Star.
		Tom claims that Iusu, "was one of the eight great gods who were described in the papyri almost 20,000 years ago," Folks, they didn't have writing 20,000 years ago!
		Tom many years ago, probably 25 years ago was on "100 Huntley Street." He and his wife had taken a donkey from Nazareth and travelled down to Bethlehem, and I thought it was so unique that I called Tom up and said you’ve got to come on and tell that story which he did.
	www.crossroads.ca /archives/maier_harpur.htm (1470 words)

	Discourse with evangelism
		Cardinal Ambrozic certainly is within his rights to make such a claim and if Tom Harpur and anyone else disagree, their quarrel should be with the the Bible and not the Cardinal.
		Harpur who is at the bottom end of it and that is because of belief.
		Harpur to refute these five tests to prove me wrong, unless you choose to do what most have already done, ban me from their boards.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Ithaca/3440/ban.html (12537 words)

	Amazon.ca: For Christ's Sake: Books: Tom Harpur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		14) Tom Harpur states, "Clearly, then, we need to be wary of those who would set forth the alleged psychology of Jesus or venture to tell us precisely what all his motives and intentions are." He then spends the rest of the book doing just what he has warned the readers against.
		Tom Harpur has his own version of Jesus and will do anything necessary to make it seem plausible, no matter whom he has to discredit to do so.
		With compassion and intelligence, Harpur shows, repeatedly and through investigating the New Testament, why Christ is not and never was God in the flesh.
	www.amazon.ca /Christs-Sake-Tom-Harpur/dp/077103945X (1689 words)

	McClelland.com \| Books \| Would You Believe? by Tom Harpur
		In Would You Believe?, Tom Harpur deals with the tough questions raised today by real people, such as how to reconcile the presence of evil, pain and suffering with belief in a loving God.
		The challenge we face, Harpur writes, is not to find a substitute but to rediscover God under the encrustation of ritual and doctrine that the various faiths have built up.
		We can go beyond all narrow-minded claims of being the only true religion, the only correct interpreter of God, he says, when we understand that all faiths are simply routes towards God that humans have been inspired to create.
	www.mcclelland.com /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780771039492 (332 words)

	Amazon.com: For Christ's Sake: Books: Tom Harpur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In "For Christ's Sake" Tom Harpur argues that Jesus was not God, a second person of a Trinity, or a pre-existent Son of God.
		Along the way Harpur takes issue with the doctrine of the virgin birth, the infallibility of the Bible, the theory of Atonement, and the belief that the only way to God is through Jesus, among other closely held beliefs of the orthodox.
		The major problem with Christianity, Harpur believes, is that Christians have come to focus on the medium--Jesus--rather than the message he came to proclaim.
	www.amazon.com /Christs-Sake-Tom-Harpur/dp/077103945X (2817 words)

	Feature: Tom Harpur :: Sunday Nights
		Tom Harpur is widely regarded as Canada’s leading journalist on religion.
		Eschewing his evangelical Anglican roots the latest of Tom Harpur’s books ‘The Pagan Christ’, suggests a conspiracy around Christianity far beyond the novelised fantasies of the Da Vinci code, or the historical speculations of Bishop Spong.
		Harpur suggests that the entire edifice right up to and including the existence of Jesus himself is a fiction.
	www.abc.net.au /sundaynights/stories/s1327913.htm (354 words)

	Tom Harpur's false choices Catholic New Times - Find Articles
		Harpur has undertaken, which is nothing less than the radical transformation of Christianity as we know it.
		For Harpur, the gospels were originally intended to be mythological, expressing deep spiritual truths flowing from the ancient religion.
		Ironically, even the work of the Jesus Seminar is dismissed by Harpur, because they still mistakenly believe that Jesus was an historical person.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0MKY/is_12_28/ai_n6102291 (798 words)

	Amazon.com: Life After Death: Books: Tom Harpur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Harpur, a faith and values columnist for the Toronto Star, tackles one of those subjects with no definitive answer and does so with clarity and thoroughness.
		In the end, Harpur concludes "to trust there there is a life after death is to trust God.
		Tom Harpur is very convincing in his case for the possibility a hereafter.
	www.amazon.com /Life-After-Death-Tom-Harpur/dp/0771039417 (1172 words)

	Amazon.fr : The Pagan Christ: Recovering The Lost Light: Livres en anglais: Tom Harpur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		For forty years and in nine previous books, scholar and religious commentator Tom Harpur has challenged church orthodoxy and guided thousands of readers on subjects as controversial as the true nature of Christ and life after death.
		Only with a return to an inclusive religion will we gain a true understanding of who we are and who we are intended to become.
		Drawing on the work of scholars such as Gerald Massey and Alvin Boyd Kuhn, Tom Harpur has written a book of rare insight and power.
	www.amazon.fr /Pagan-Christ-Recovering-Lost-Light/dp/0802714498 (746 words)

	in conversation with Tom Harpur \| nakedpastor
		Harpur to inform him of my blog entry concerning his book (click here to read it).
		He’s one of the ones that Harpur would consider giving a rude response to his research.
		If you go to Harpur’s own website http://tomharpur.com and click under “Responses to Pagan Christ”, there’s a whole paragraph devoted to the tektonics website and its author.
	nakedpastor.com /archives/141 (1138 words)

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		In a work sure to rattle the pews of even the most liberal of churches, ex-Anglican priest Tom Harpur contends that Christianity is built on a history that didn't happen, upon a series of miracles that were never performed, and on allegories scavenged from the teachings and myths of ancient cultures.
		According to Harpur, the early Christian church accepted these ancient truths as the very tenets of Christianity and set about covering up all attempts to reveal any elements of the Bible as myth.
		About the Author : Tom Harpur, columnist for the Toronto Star, former Anglican priest and professor of Greek and The New Testament at the University of Toronto, is a prominent writer on religious and ethical issues.
	www.allenandunwin.com /Shopping/ProductDetails.aspx?ISBN=9781741145960 (484 words)

	The Pagan Christ: Recovering the Lost Light by Tom Harpur \| PopMatters Book Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		By deconstructing the evidence for the historical Jesus, Harpur backs up his assertion that the Jesus narrative is simply one more variation on this archetypal theme.
		The power of the millennia-old Christ mythos to transform the whole of humanity was all but destroyed in the literalist adulation of 'a presumptive Galilean paragon.' Centuries of darkness were to follow.
		Harpur suggests that it's time the darkness gave way to the dawn, for religious literalism to be put aside in favor of the revelatory power of spiritual allegory.
	www.popmatters.com /books/reviews/p/pagan-christ.shtml (1338 words)

	NIGELBEALE.COM NOTA BENE BOOKS » Blog Archive » Hunger for Heart Knowledge: An Audio Interview with Tom ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Tom Harpur is an internationally recognized writer on religion and ethical issues.
		Tom was in Ottawa as a participant in the Spring 2006 Ottawa International Writers Festival.
		This entry was posted on Thursday, April 20th, 2006 at 6:21 am and is filed under AUDIO Interviews Authors, On Life.
	nigelbeale.com /?p=227 (295 words)

	Daedalus Books Online - The Pagan Christ - Tom Harpur.
		Scholar and religious commentator Tom Harpur, a former Anglican priest and the author of For Christ's Sake and Life After Death here offers a radical unearthing and examination of the origins of Christianity.
		Long before the advent of Christ, Egyptians and other peoples believed in a messiah, a virgin birth, and the incarnation of the spirit in flesh.
		Harpur argues that the early Christian church obscured its pagan origins, and transformed a universal belief system of myth and allegory into a ritualistic institution based on literal interpretations of those symbols—in other words, Christ himself was an invention of the church.
	www.daedalusbooks.com /Products/Detail.asp?Media=Book&ProductID=57564&SubCategoryID=2201 (183 words)

	Tom Harpur
		is Canada's most prominent writer on religious, spiritual and ethical issues. As well as being a columnist for the Toronto Star, Tom Harpur has written many best-selling books, four of which are
		Harpur's Heaven and Hell, For Christ's Sake, Would You Believe?
		I predict that unless such matters are made top priority in every major faith, in every denomination, some utterly new religious revelations will soon burst forth to eclipse them all. Man is ultimately a spiritual animal--
	www.homestead.com /tomharpur (245 words)

	Encountering the Convictions of Tom Harpur - Christianity.ca
		Encountering the Convictions of Tom Harpur - Christianity.ca
		When we share our faith, often our challenge as believers has been to respond to the question, is Jesus who He said He was.
		But there are always surprises" Tom Harpur, CBC Radio Interivew.
	www.christianity.ca /church/sermons/2006/05.000.html (876 words)

	Random House \| Books \| The Uncommon Touch by Tom Harpur
		But, to its cost, the modern Church has largely forgotten its healing role, says Tom Harpur in The Uncommon Touch, a powerful and persuasive investigation of spiritual healing.
		Yet the ancient practice of the laying-on of hands is not only still performed, it is now gaining credibility, even among physicians and other sceptics, most notably in Britain.
		He also describes the many scientific studies that demonstrate clearly the healing and nurturing power of this astonishing phenomenon and verify that something more than the power of suggestion is at work.
	www.randomhouse.com /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780771039461 (287 words)

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