ROBERT M. PRICE

America may be the land of plenty, but in the midst of our Walmarts, enormous supermarkets, and other signs of material surfeit, it seems that many are experiencing a gnawing spiritual hunger. This book examines the historical roots and the appeal of ...

Medieval Churchmen heard the legend of Prince Siddhartha (the ""Bodhisattva,"" or ""Buddha-to-be"") renouncing his wealth and seeking salvation as a monk, but they mistook it for the history of some Christian monk named ""Iodasaph"" (a corruption of ""Bodhisattva""). Iodasaph was canonized as an official saint. The ironic result was that Gautama...

Conservative Protestantism in America has always wrestled with doctrinal controversies over issues...

Price (biblical criticism, Center for Inquiry Institute) adopts an agnostic stand on the issue of whether an historical Jesus existed and surveys the ways in which early Jesus movements and more modern accounts of Jesus of Nazareth framed their ideas about the life of Jesus to fit a wide range of belief systems and theological agendas. Annotation c