A Search in Secret Egypt - Paul Brunton

Advantages: Absolutely magnificent!
Disadvantages: You have to keep it in mind

...I have tried every kind of diet that I have come across - I gave everything a chance... Slim Fast Cabbage Soup Diet Banana Diet Kellog's Diet Rosemary Conley's Diet The Atkin's Diet Yeast-free Diet Fat-Burning Foods Diet "Starving-myself-thin-Diet" "Becoming-bulimic-diet" The Instant Abs Eating Plan (Diet!) You name it! By the time the GI Diet came I already gave up, in fact, designed my own diet, based on my own perceptions about food. I also had...may I add, once had, a very addictive way of living around chocolate. Chocolate was like, Paul McKenna says on his show to another chocoholic woman "your crack cocane" to me too. It all started when I was watching SkyOne and noticed his advertisment for his upcoming show which came on in January 2006. I was intrigued and I wondered how on earth it is possible... Read review

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Advantages: Great style, interesting topic
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...were present; John has Thomas missing). These kinds of images, Pagels suggests, might indicate a sort of rivalry for position. John’s gospel was itself questioned during the early church, and his community of Christians existed on the fringe of the wider community. However, John’s gospel is a clear and powerful one, and Pagels demonstrates that at many crucial points in the Thomas narrative, pieces are cryptic at best, and not at all definable and discernable. This would not have appealed to certain communities in Christianity, searching for a certain faith. Pagels traces the development of the acceptance of John over Thomas in the wider context of canonical development – she introduces other non-canonical writings of the time, such as the Secret Book of John, the Secret Book of James, the Prayer of the Apostle Paul, and others. She... Read review

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Advantages: An interesting new approach
Disadvantages: Less a reinvention as a furthering development, not yet completed

...Gager could perhaps be starting a quest similar in intent if not in form to that of the Jesus Seminar, namely, the search for the ‘real’ Paul, or at least the ‘real meaning’ of Paul. Paul has been reinterpreted and recast in many ways over the past 2000 years, for denominational and sociological reasons. To build upon Schweitzer’s observations about the changing images of Jesus, just as each age reinterprets Jesus to, in one way or another, recast Jesus in the image of that age, so too does Paul undergo a similar change. What Gager is doing, however, is not merely reinterpreting the meaning of Paul -- he is offering a new way of asking the interpretative questions, offering a paradigm shift that casts doubts upon traditional interpretations and offers a new way of thinking about the texts. ‘Once we begin to question not just specific... Read review

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