From Christianity to Christ: Christianity as the Essence of Humanity in Rudolf Steiner's Science of the Spirit - Softcover

Archiati, Pietro

Softcover

ISBN 10: 090469383X ISBN 13: 9780904693836

Publisher: Temple Lodge Publishing, 1998

Synopsis

What we traditionally think of as Christianity is only its cultural form, adopted and developed over the last two thousand years.

This represents chiefly human thoughts and dogmas, human institutions, churches, and beliefs: in other words all that human beings have developed as their response to the Christ event. Rudolf Steiner said of Christianity that it "started as a religion but greater than all religions." Taking this as his basis, the author reaches beyond earthly traditions and cultural expressions of Christianity to its true spiritual essence.

His survey takes us from the history of actual "all-too-human" Christianity to the history of actual "Christian" Christianity and its future development through a new scientific approach to the spirit. Archiati's warmth of expression and clarity of thought bring to life ideas and concepts that for so long have been the reserve of dry theology.

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About the Author

PIETRO ARCHIATI was born in 1944 in Brescia, Italy. He studied philosophy and theology, and worked for many years as a Catholic priest. In 1977 he had a decisive encounter with the work of Rudolf Steiner. He later worked as a teacher in a seminary in South Africa. Since 1987 he has been working independently as a freelance lecturer and author for a regeneration of humanity through a modern scientific awareness of spiritual beings and realities.

Edition details

• Publisher: Temple Lodge Publishing
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 090469383X
• ISBN 13: 9780904693836
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128