The Message of the Alien God and the Beginnings of Christianity

The Message of the Alien God and the Beginnings of Christianity

Harnack's study of Marcion provides a critical view into the most formative period of early Christianity. Marcion, who created the first New Testament, consisting of a stripped-down version of the Gospel of Luke and 10 letters of Paul, would have made Christianity a religon of love -- rather than a mixture of judgment and grace. Harnack knew why that wouldn't ultimately work (h...(展开全部)

【格罗塞】 （Ernst Grosse，1862—1927）德国艺术史家、社会学家，现代艺术社会学奠基人之一。曾任弗赖堡大学教授。主要著作有：《艺术的起源》（1894）、《艺术学研究》（1900）等。美学上他主张把哲学美学与艺术科学分离开来，他认为包括艺术在内的精神生活与社会的经济形态之间有密切关系。提倡从社会学、人类学、民族学等多方面对艺术学和艺术史进行研究。他认为艺术科学的真正目的，是对艺术的性质、产生艺术的原因及其效果作全面探讨。艺术活动也是审美活动，它的发展过程或后果都有直接的感情价值，这种感情价值大半是愉快的。所以艺术（或审美）本身也是目的，其它的目的无关紧要。除了艺术活动，还有实际活动（如生产劳动）和游戏活动。实际活动是一种手段，而游戏活动中则介于二者之间。他用社会学的观点深入考察了原始民族的艺术，利用人种史和人类学的资料，阐明艺术起源的...(展开全部)

When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide Early morning, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant, Barbara Van Laar, has gone missing. Barbara isn’t just any thirteen-year-old: she’s the daughter of the family that owns the summer camp and employs most of the region’s residents. And this isn’t the first time a Van La...(展开全部)

When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide Early morning, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant, Barbara Van Laar, has gone missing. Barbara isn’t just any thirteen-year-old: she’s the daughter of the family that owns the summer camp and employs most of the region’s residents. And this isn’t the first time a Van La...(展开全部)

In Laurie R. King’s latest Mary Russell–Sherlock Holmes mystery, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author delivers a thriller of ingenious surprises and unrelenting suspense—as the famous husband and wife sleuths are pursued by a killer immune from the sting of justice. It began as a problem in one of Holmes’ beloved beehives, led to a murderous cult, and ended—or so th...(展开全部)

劳拉.金（Laurie R. King）， 出生于1952年，美国著名推理小说家，著作数十部，部部登上畅销书排行榜，其中“玛丽.罗素与大侦探福尔摩斯”系列令其声名远播。 迄今她已获得或提名了几乎全部推理界的奖项，堪称阿加莎.克里斯蒂之后的女性推理小说家*一人。这些奖项包括美国侦探作家协会颁发的全世界侦探小说*权*奖项埃德加.爱伦.坡奖，美国国家悬疑作品协会颁发的美国*著名推理小说奖项阿加莎奖，英国*重要的文学奖项之一橘子奖，以及尼禄.沃尔夫奖、克利西奖、麦克维蒂奖、巴利奖等等。 对立与争夺渐渐浮出水面。