Robert M. Price

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Robert M. Price

Robert McNair Price (born July 7, 1954 ) is an American theologian who has been advocating the Jesus myth theory since 1993 . He is Professor of Biblical Criticism at the Center for Inquiry in Amherst, New York .

Life

Price grew up in New Jersey . He became a Baptist early on and led a Christian student community at Montclair State College . From 1977 he studied theology at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and became a liberal theologian in the wake of Paul Tillich . In 1981 he received his doctorate as a systematic theologian and in 1993 in the New Testament from Drew University . In between he taught religion at Mount Olive College in North Carolina for a few years and was pastor of a Baptist church in Montclair, New Jersey . As a result of his reading of critical thinkers of the 19th century, his doubts about liberal theology grew, so that he gave up his pastor in 1994.

Robert Price and his wife led a private free church for six years. In 2000 he moved to North Carolina and became a member of the Episcopal Church . Price published a number of books that dispute the historicity of Jesus of Nazareth and Paul of Tarsus . He was interviewed for the film The God Who Wasn't There , which advocates the Jesus myth thesis.

Price also dealt intensively with the Cthulhu myth founded by HP Lovecraft and other authors , was editor of the relevant magazine Crypt of Cthulhu and several books on the subject - especially by Chaosium- Verlag.

Work (selection)

  • Beyond Born Again
  • The Widow Traditions in Luke-Acts: A Feminist-Critical Scrutiny ( ISBN 0-7885-0224-7 )
  • Deconstructing Jesus ( ISBN 1-57392-758-9 )
  • The Pre-Nicene New Testament ( ISBN 1-56085-194-5 )
  • The Da Vinci Fraud ( ISBN 1-59102-348-3 )
  • The Incredible Shrinking Son of Man ( ISBN 1-59102-121-9 )
  • The Reason Driven Life: What Am I Here on Earth For? ( ISBN 1-59102-476-5 )
  • The Buddha and the Bible
  • Jesus Christ Superstar: A Redactional Study of a Modern Gospel
  • Inerrant the Wind: The Evangelical Crisis of Biblical Authority
  • Paul as text: The Apostle and the Apocrypha

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Biography: Robert M. Price
  2. ↑ Mike Licona: The God Who Wasn't There (review on bethinking.org)
personal data
SURNAME Price, Robert M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Price, Robert McNair (full name); McNair Price, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American theologian and author
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1954