Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Heresy: "Did Jesus need to go to the toilet like ordinary humans- again better get that right, for you could die if you got that wrong too."

  Heresy – Jesus Christ and Other Sons of God (Picador, 2024)

 by Cambridge Classics major, Catherine Nixey

Just finishing up the Amazon UK reviews for the new book Heresy. The author, a classicist slash journalist, achieved a hit seller with her first book on the destruction of the pagan classical cultures by early Christianity. I have not read that book - Catherine Nixey is the author and her followup book looks riveting. It's sold in the U.S. with a different title and not available yet - so I took the plunge of getting the hardcover from the original Picador publisher in the UK - along with the original title of Heresy (not Heretic as the U.S. publisher renamed it).  

Catherine Nixey- the subtitle of the book is very similar to D.M. Murdock aka Acharya S. in her "Suns of God" follow up to her best-seller "The Christ Conspiracy." My personal favorite is "Christ in Egypt" but after I bought it then I discovered she had just passed on early aged. I had corresponded several times with Acharya S. - even posting on her forum some research to corroborate her claims. She didn't like some criticism I had of her that she said was similar to Kenn Thomas' criticism of her. Kenn Thomas also is now no longer in his body and indeed Kenn and I did correspond about Acharya S. writing - he was close friends with her but I guess he had a falling out regarding this disagreement.

One of the reviews recommend Charles Freeman as a more academic version of early Christian history but somehow I think Catherine Nixey has done her own specific take that has a lot to contribute. The book Heresy got a lot of great promos from big newspapers in the U.K. but also a lot of scornful reviews by people nitpicking the contents of the book.

Charles P. Freeman (born 1947) is an English historian specializing in the history of ancient Greece and Rome. He is the author of numerous books on the ancient world including "The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason". He has taught courses on ancient history in Cambridge's Adult Education program and is a Historical Consultant to the Blue Guides. He also leads cultural study tours to Italy, Greece, and Turkey. In 2003, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

https://historyforatheists.com/2024/05/review-catherine-nixey-heresy-jesus-christ-and-other-sons-of-god/

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/mar/29/heresy-by-catherine-nixey-review-book-of-revelations 

https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2024/5-april/books-arts/book-reviews/book-review-heresy-jesus-christ-and-the-other-sons-of-god-by-catherine-nixey

https://www.theosthinktank.co.uk/comment/2024/04/09/catherine-nixey-heresy-jesus-christ-and-the-other-sons-of-god-london-picador-2024 

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/211118755-heresy

https://andrewcopson.com/2024/08/book-review-heresy-jesus-christ-and-the-other-sons-of-god-by-catherine-nixey/ 

https://literaryreview.co.uk/from-cult-to-church

https://www.hodgesfiggis.ie/reviews/heresy/catherine-nixey/9781529040357 

https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/catherine-nixey/heresy/9781529040357

https://freethinker.co.uk/2024/07/how-the-roman-empire-became-christian-catherine-nixeys-the-darkening-age-and-heresy-reviewed/ 

https://www.netgalley.com/book/347212/reviews

 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fiction/heresy-catherine-nixey-review-christianity/

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/religion/article/heresy-catherine-nixey-review-p6cdhj708 

https://www.marinamaxwellauthor.com/book-reviews/heresy-jesus-christ-and-the-other-sons-of-god 

 nothing–buttery

  This is the theory that the whole universe, and everyone and everything in it, is "nothing but" matter and energy, atoms and molecules.

 nothing-buttery (usually uncountable, plural nothing-butteries). (derogatory) Any form of reductionism seen as explaining away phenomena.

 

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