An afterlife of a scholarly epic: Frazer's Golden Bough and Lewis's argument from myth
C.S. Lewis believed that Jesus Christ embodied, in historical fact, a mythic pattern of dying and rising exemplified by deities such as Balder and Osiris. Taken from James Frazer's Golden Bough, an enormously influential work of early anthropological scholarship, the idea of a generalized ‘dyin...
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Edinburgh University Press
2021
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