Eliseo Ferrer / A Challenge to the Academic Consensus of the Twentieth Century. (From the Book: ‘The Christian Myth, According to the Texts’).
The author developed in this work through a thematic structure that includes a first part, in which the cultural and ideological-textual foundations of the myth of the celestial savior are presented. In the second part, I introduce “the Christian myth in evolution”; or, to be more precise, what we can also call “the convergence of currents in Christian mythology,” which includes:
1. the myth of the judge-savior (Saoshyant) from Persian apocalyptic literature, who makes his appearance on earth (parousia) to declare the end of time and carry out the universal judgment of the living and the dead;
2. the Orphic–Platonic myth of Greek origin (Dionysus), involving the incarnation of divinity in the soul, serving as the central and ideologically preeminent space of Christian mythology; and
3. the Orphic–Platonic myth expanded with the stereotypes of Pauline mysteriology: the myth of the descent, incarnation, death, and resurrection of the Son of God.
