Clear and Present Thinking, Second Edition by Charlene Elsby

Clear and Present Thinking, Second Edition by Charlene Elsby

DECONSTRUCTING THE CODE is a story of love and lost meaning, treachery and distrust, creative expression and blatant forgery, book burnings and the chance discovery of priceless writings of antiquity. In a new epic play by writer Jack Forbes, DECONSTRUCTING the Code tells the true story of the origins of Christianity and reveals long-hidden truths of ancient Gnostic Gospels (the Nag Hammadi Books).

Saul of Tarsus is tormented by Jehovah's mandate that Gentiles, including Saul's childhood friend Thecla, could not be saved. As an ordained Rabbi, Saul recognized countless contradictions and impossible edicts within the Torah. Along the road to Tarsus (the so-called Road to Damascus), however, Saul experiences a liberating spiritual revelation in a mandate from God--a new religion of a metaphorical Christ where the Christ is in you. But the Apostle Paul (his Greek, or Hellenized, name) could never have anticipated how his new, Gnostic (Knowledge) Christian religion would later become distorted, challenged and annihilated by the Catholic Church in a violent conspiracy of convenience with Roman Emperor Constantine. For centuries, the literalist Christian church became the sole claimant to Christian doctrines--until one day in 1945 with discovery of the Nag Hammadi Books.

Charlene Elsby is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne, specializing in Ancient Philosophy and Realist Phenomenology. She has articles appearing in Quaestiones Disputatae and Logic and Logical Philosophy, along with several book chapters and contributions to popular culture and philosophy volumes. She is currently working on an analysis of the integration of Aristotelian concepts into the works of early phenomenologists. Aaron Massecar is an independent scholar and consultant living in Guelph, Canada. He is the author of Ethical Habits: A Peircean Perspective (Lexington Books, 2016) and numerous articles on Charles S. Peirce that have been published in journals such as The Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society and Contemporary Pragmatism. He continues to research critical, reflective habit development and its effect on human performance.

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ISBN 13	9780993952791
ISBN 10	0993952798
Title	Clear and Present Thinking, Second Edition
Author	Charlene Elsby
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Northwest Passage Books
Year published	2019-01-10
Number of pages	214
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