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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Jesus Christ Superstar by Robert M. Price Jesus Christ Superstar by Robert M. Price. R obert M . P rice (born July 7, 1954) is a Mississippian by birth, lived in Ne w Jersey for most of his life, and has recently resettled in North Carolina. After early involvement in a fundamentalist Baptist church, he went on to become a leader in the Montclair State College chapter of the Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship. Having developed a keen interest in apologetics (the defense of the faith on intellectual grounds), Bob went on to enroll at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, where he received an MTS degree in New Testament. Billy Graham was the commencement speaker. It was during this period, 1977-78, however, that Bob began to reassess his faith, deciding at length that traditional Christianity simply did not have either the historical credentials or the intellectual cogency its defenders claimed for it. Embarking on a wide program of reading religious thinkers and theologians from other traditions, as well as the sociology, anthropology, and psychology of religion, he soon considered himself a theological liberal in the camp of Paul Tillich. He received the Ph.D. degree in systematic theology from Drew University in 1981. After some years teaching in the religious studies department of Mount Olive College in North Carolina, Price returned to New Jersey to pastor First Baptist Church of Montclair, the first pastorate, many years before, of � liberal preacher Harry Emerson Fosdick. Price soon enrolled in a second doctoral program at Drew, receiving the Ph.D. in New Testament in 1993. These studies, together with his encounter with the writings of Don Cupitt, Jacques Derrida, and the New Testament critics of the Nineteenth Century, rapidly eroded his liberal Christian stance, and Price resigned his pastorate in 1994. A brief flirtation with Unitarian Universalism disenchanted him even with this liberal extreme of institutional religion. For six years Bob and Carol led a living room church called The Grail. Now, back in North Carolina, he attends the Episcopal Church and keeps his mouth shut. Robert M. Price is Professor of Biblical Criticism at the Center for Inquiry Institute as well as the editor of The Journal of Higher Criticism . His books include Beyond Born Again , � The Widow Traditions in Luke-Acts: A Feminist-Critical Scrutiny , Deconstructing Jesus , and The Incredible Shrinking Son of Man. Forthcoming titles are The Crisis of Biblical Authority , Jesus Christ Superstar: A Redactional Study of a Modern Gospel , The Da Vinci Controversy and The Amazing Colossal Apostle . Occasionally someone familiar with Robert M. Price as a writer on religion comes across the same name attached to books related to H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, etc., and inevitably wonders if it could possibly be the same person, all the more since one also finds titles on South Africa and on guns credited to a Robert M. Price. Those last two are not our man, but the horror writer and the religion writer are indeed the Jeckyll and Hyde sides of the same fellow. Click here to read about Price's Hyde side and how he has cultivated it. HOME | BIOGRAPHY | RELIGIOUS PUBLICATIONS | LITERARY PUBLICATIONS | FICTION | COLUMNS SERMONS | BIBLE GEEK | READING LIST. Copyright�2004-2009 by Robert M Price Photo Credit: John Skillin Spirit of Carolina Web Design. Robert M. Price. Price critiques William Lane Craig's attempt to establish the historicity of the resurrection of Jesus. Robert Price critiques chapter nine of Josh McDowell's Evidence That Demands a Verdict. Price argues that contemporary biblical scholarship has thrown fundamentalist appeals to the "proof from prophecy" so seriously into question that it can no longer be used to defend the true messiahship of Jesus. Robert Price critiques chapter eight of Josh McDowell's Evidence That Demands a Verdict. Where did the book of Mormon come from? In "Prophecy and Palimpsest" Robert M. Price outlines the case for a human rather than divine origin of the book, arguing that it is "a modern pseudepigraph, the work of Joseph Smith himself," the founder of the Latter-day Saints. "The Book of Mormon never existed as a set of golden plates in a foreign language" handed down by the angel Moroni, but was Smith's way of presenting America's frontier heritage in biblical language. His portrayal of American Christianity was really just a reflection of what he thought Christianity ought to become, and his fictionalized image of the biblical past was a mirror of the way he thought things ought to be. Virtually all the rest of McDowell's sixth chapter of Evidence That Demands a Verdict is taken up with defending what no one challenges: that various New Testament writers believed Jesus Christ was a heavenly being come to earth. That McDowell can for a moment imagine that such scripture prooftexting even begins to address the objections of nonbelievers shows once again that he really has no intention of engaging them. He is simply a cheer-leader for fundamentalism, preaching to the choir. In this follow-up piece to "Prophecy and Palimpsest," Robert M. Price defends his position that the Book of Mormon is a pseudepigraph crafted by Joseph Smith. Various points are addressed in response to William Hamblin's objections to "Prophecy and Palimpsest." Debates. A debate between Robert M. Price and John Rankin. Other Essays. Price analyzes the evidence for and against the hypothesis that 1 Corinthians 15:3-11 is a post-Pauline interpolation. He concludes that the emergent hypothesis, while it can in the nature of the case never be more than an unverifiable speculation, can claim a significant degree of plausibility as one among many options for making sense of the passage. William Lane Craig's Critique (2000) Price responds to William Lane Craig's objections to the hypothesis that 1 Corinthians 15:3-11 is a post- Pauline interpolation. Christ may be said to be a fiction in the four senses that 1) it is quite possible that there was no historical Jesus. 2) Even if there was, he is lost to us, the result being that there is no historical Jesus available to us. And 3) the Jesus who "walks with me and talks with me and tells me I am his own" is an imaginative visualization and in the nature of the case can be nothing more than a fiction. And finally, 4) "Christ" as a corporate logo for this and that religious institution is a euphemistic fiction, not unlike Ronald McDonald, Mickey Mouse, or Joe Camel, the purpose of which is to get you to swallow a whole raft of beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors by an act of simple faith, short-circuiting the dangerous process of thinking the issues out to your own conclusions. Price argues that the essence of Christianity is not love, but is in fact the doctrine of the atonement. Price's account of his own journey from Christian fundamentalist to humanist. "I want to suggest that, first, the claim that the Bible is divinely inspired is spurious; second, that it is pernicious; and, third, that it is moot. The Bible and our study of it will be better off without that claim." "If one wishes to get anywhere reasoning with fundamentalists and biblicists, I suggest one try to determine the emotional issues that attach believers to their beliefs. The beliefs themselves are, I think, a function of certain psychological needs that would be better met in other ways. But until those psychological needs are identified and met in other ways, we will have no way of getting believers to budge from their beliefs, and we might not even have the right to do so." ISBN 13: 9781634311908. Robert M. Price, a former Evangelical Christian, examines the confusing intersection of Christianity and superstition by asking questions. Is “practicing the presence of God” actually a variety of paranoia? Is having a “personal relationship with Jesus Christ” really akin to a child playing with an imaginary friend? At what point does a religious belief become an obsessive neurosis? Price finds that the source of superstition in Christianity is the objectification of the transcendent. As a result, he argues, many of the most destructive superstitions within Christianity are inessential accretions to the faith, interfering with life-transforming piety to the glad benefit of many of Christianity's adherents. Christians who believe that an unexamined faith is not worth having will profit from struggling with Jesus Christ Superstition . "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Robert M. Price is the host of the podcasts The Bible Geek and The Human Bible as well as the author of many books. He is the founder and editor of the Journal of Higher Criticism . "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. Shipping: FREE Within U.S.A. Customers who bought this item also bought. Top Search Results from the AbeBooks Marketplace. 1. Jesus Christ Superstition. Book Description Soft Cover. Condition: new. Seller Inventory # 9781634311908. 2. Jesus Christ Superstition. Book Description Condition: New. Seller Inventory # 35442042-n. 3. Jesus Christ Superstition (Paperback) Book Description Paperback. Condition: New. Language: English. Brand new Book. Robert M. Price, a former Evangelical Christian, examines the confusing intersection of Christianity and superstition by asking questions. Is "practicing the presence of God" actually a variety of paranoia? Is having a "personal relationship with Jesus Christ" really akin to a child playing with an imaginary friend? At what point does a religious belief become an obsessive neurosis? Price finds that the source of superstition in Christianity is the objectification of the transcendent. As a result, he argues, many of the most destructive superstitions within Christianity are inessential accretions to the faith, interfering with life-transforming piety to the glad benefit of many of Christianity's adherents.