@DrSly16 @horusrage @Wolfpak561 @WmManry @RossGilroy @A_Damned_smith @willsworldview @zapher134 @globalist13903 @protecths @zypisfy @Janetb172 @StillDizzy2 @Kalianeke @enterumbra @IHateGod427 @Tiffany_Stuff @pray2pesci @MucusMucous @tklforgiven @SecularSandwich @Chortling_Man @JohnKrahn2 @oohglobbits5 @Falchion14 @peter_telecom @HeathenSawyer @CollinOctantis @KaasKeizer @tarquinrees @tcunderdahl @WondersNorbit @TakeThatDarwin @hauxton @RealAnonDouche @TJaytheist @GoatMunch @giomis4 @ACoventryScone @MuddyWatersRecs @tk_the_kitsune @day_graeme @MagnaAdam @misreadbible The concept of a dying-and-rising god, in mythology, was explored by James Frazer - The Golden Bough (1890). He associated the motif with fertility rites surrounding the yearly cycle of vegetation, citing examples of Osiris, Tammuz, Adonis and Attis, Zagreus, Dionysus, and Jesus.

The Catholic affirmation of the institutional church is rooted in this logic of incarnation, which is a continuing testimony of what Jesus did. This logic is a more persistent postmodernism, indeed a Catholic postmodernism. --James K. A. Smith https://t.co/fe0cxHh4M9

Smith has two more important pieces -- one on Historical Jesus scholarship in a volume (ed. @chriskeith7 & James Crossley) and her actual book forthcoming on this so watch this space!