How God Became God by Richard Smoley - ISBN: 9780399185557
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How God Became God

What Scholars are Really Saying About God and the Bible

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  • Paperback

    320 pages

  • Release Date

    1 September 2016

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Summary

This epic, thrilling journey through Bible scholarship and ancient religion shows how Scripture is historically false–yet the ancient writings also resound with theologies that crisscrossed the primeval world and that direct us today toward a deep, inner, authentic experience of the truly sacred.This epic, thrilling journey through Bible scholarship and ancient religion shows how much of Scripture is historically false–yet the ancient writings also resound with theologies that crisscrossed th…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780399185557
ISBN-10:0399185550
Author:Richard Smoley
Publisher:Penguin Putnam Inc
Imprint:TarcherPerigee
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:320
Release Date:1 September 2016
Weight:399g
Dimensions:229mm x 152mm
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Critics Review

“Enormously comforting, encouraging and inspiring. [This] is a book of tremendous service to spiritual seekers…. The threads of sanity, academic integrity, and conservative, evidence-based claims are of inestimable value in anyone’s spiritual quest…. Sheer delight, page after page, chapter after chapter.” —Larry Dossey, M.D., author of Healing Words and One Mind“Smoley is a crucial guide to the ancient traditions, and to how a greater understanding of those traditions can make our lives today more meaningful.” –Eben Alexander, MD, author of Proof of Heaven“I have a standing rule: I read anything Richard Smoley writes.” –Larry Dossey, MD“Smoley…is adept at unknotting the paradoxes of spiritual traditions and making new connections across centuries and languages.” –Library Journal“One of the liveliest, most intrepid, and most gifted explorers of the spiritual landscape writing today.” –Ptolemy Tompkins, author of Paradise Fever

About The Author

Richard Smoley

RICHARD SMOLEY is one of the world’s most distinguished authorities on the mystical and esoteric teachings of Western civilization. A graduate of Harvard College and the University of Oxford, he was a longtime editor of the venerated spiritual journal Gnosis. Smoley is the author of books including Inner Christianity, The Essential Nostradamus, The Deal- A Guide to Radical and Complete Forgiveness, and Forbidden Faith- The Secret History of Gnosticism. He is currently editor of Quest- Journal of the Theosophical Society in America.

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