Edwin Johnson (historian)

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Edwin Johnson (1842–1901) was an

radical criticisms of Christian historiography
.

Biography

Among his works are Antiqua Mater: A Study of Christian Origins (1887, published in London anonymously) and The Pauline Epistles: Re-studied and Explained (1894).

In Antiqua Mater Johnson examines a great variety of sources related to

Jesus Christ or the Apostles.[1]

He asserts that Christianity had evolved from a

Paul in the New Testament, and in a few places in Acts of the Apostles in reference to Paul's activities.[2]

Both Gnosticism as well as certain Bacchic pagan cults are also mentioned as likely precursors of Christianity.[citation needed]

In The Pauline Epistles and The Rise of English Culture Johnson made the radical claim that the whole of the so-called

mythos in the early 16th century. As one reviewer said, Johnson "undertakes to abolish all English history before the end of the fifteenth century."[3]
Johnson contends that before the "age of publication" and the "revival of letters" there are no reliable registers and logs, and there is a lack of records and documents with verifiable dates.

Publications

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Radicalism in England: Johnson from "The Denial of the Historicity of Jesus in Past and Present" by Arthur Drews.
  2. ^ "Jesus — One Hundred Years Before Christ by Alvar Ellegard" Archived 2006-10-06 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Anonymous. The Abolition of History. The New York Times. May 14, 1904.

External links

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