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An edition of The messianic legacy (1989)

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"Startling new evidence about Jesus Christ and a secret society still influential today"--Cover subtitle.

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Publisher
Dell
Language
English
Pages
425

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New York

Table of Contents

Introduction
Part One: The Messiah
Scholarship and public understanding
Jesus as King of Israel
Constantine as Messiah
Jesus as a freedom-fighter
The Zadokite movement of Qumran
The formation of Christianity
The brothers of Jesus
The survival of Nazarean teaching
The last days
Part Two: The quest for meaning
The activation of symbol
The loss of faith
Substitute faiths: Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany
The post-war crisis and social desperation
Trust and power
The artist as priest, the king as symbol
Towards an embrace of armageddon
Part Three: The cabal
Fragments in the post
The British connection
The anonymous tracts
The elusive "American contingent"
The vista widens
Resistance, chivalry, and the United States of Europe
The return of De Gaulle
Secret powers behind covert groups
Epilogue.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 376-385) and index.

Copyright Date
1986

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
909
Library of Congress
BL475 .B3 1989

The Physical Object

Pagination
xv, 425 pages, [4] pages of plates
Number of pages
425

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27057768M
ISBN 10
0440203198
ISBN 13
9780440203193
OCLC/WorldCat
19933438
Amazon ID (ASIN)

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