Edwin Johnson
Edwin Johnson (1842-1901) was an English historian, best known for his radical critique of Christian historiography, his research are in line with Bruno Bauer , SA Naber, and A. Pierson. Among his works are cited Antiqua Mater: A Study of Christian Origins (1887, published anonymously in London) and The Pauline Epistle: Re-studied and Explained (1894).
In Antiqua Mater Johnson examines a wide range of sources relating to early Christianity and "external to Scripture," and he comes to the conclusion that there is no reliable documentary evidence capable of establishing the existence of Jesus Christ or the Apostles. According to him Christianity has evolved from a movement in the Jewish diaspora , from people that he provisionally called hagioi. These Jews adhered to a liberal interpretation of the Torah with a simplification of the rites and more spiritual outlook. hagioi is a Greek word meaning "saints," "believe," "loyal followers," or "people of God," and it is commonly used when talking about members of the first Christian communities. It is a term that has been in frequent use in Paul in the New Testament , and in some passages of Acts , which refer to the activities of Paul.
The Gnosticism , and at the same time some pagan cults of Bacchus , are also cited as likely precursors of Christianity.
Pauline Epistles and in The Rise of The Culture Franais Johnson comes to this revolutionary proposal that all of what we call the Middle Ages between 700 and 1400 never took place, but was invented by Christian writers who have created imaginary characters and events. The Fathers of the Church , the Gospels , St. Paul , early Christian texts, and Christianity in general, this is identified simply as literary creations which he attributed to monks (mostly Benedictine ), who developed the entire Christian myth in the early sixteenth century. As one critic said, Johnson "took the party to abolish the entire history of England before the late fifteenth century. "
Johnson's critical attitude toward Christianity recalls the views expressed by Sir Isaac Newton , Wilhelm Kammeier, Jean Hardouin , Robert Baldauf and Christoph Marx calls similar to a radical revision of the historical chronology are found in various modern researchers, German researchers including Hermann Detering, Eugen Gabowitsch, Heribert Illig and Uwe Topper , and among Russian mathematicians Anatoly Fomenko and Gleb Nosovsky.
See also
- "Antiqua Mater" in PDF format
- Antiqua Mater: A Study of Christian Origins
- Study Version of Edwin Johnson's "The Pauline Epistles - Re-Studied and Explained", 1894
- Radical Criticism site of Hermann Detering
- Franais Rise of Culture - google books * Copy in the library of the University of Michigan
Sources
- (In) This article is partially or entirely from the article in English entitled " Edwin Johnson (Historian) "(see the list of authors )
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