EARLY CHRISTIANITY AND THE TRANSMIGRATION OF SOULS

Is it true that Christ taught about "karma" and the transmigration of souls? Is it true that the most spiritual of the ancient Christians believed in the same thing as today's occultists and "esotericists", Roerichs and Theosophists? Is it true that the later Church forgot the fundamentals of Christ's teaching and changed its doctrine? Is it true that in ancient religions there were the same ideas about the posthumous fate of a person? What arguments do modern Christians give to justify their disagreement with the "diagnosis of karma"? These questions are answered by a new, significantly expanded edition of the book by Deacon Andrei Kuraev.

INTRODUCTION

HL. 1. CONCEPTS OF DEATH IN THE ANCIENT WORLD

(a) Where did the soul of the Egyptian move?

(b) What did Babylon not hope for?

c) Bad news from India

d) Greek imports

Hl. 2. DEATH IN THE RELIGION OF ISRAEL

HL. 3. THE GOSPEL MYSTERY

Hl. 4. GNOSTICS AND APOCRYPHA.

Hl. 5. EARLY CHRISTIAN WRITERS ON THE IDEA OF TRANSMIGRATION OF SOULS

Hl. 6. IN WHAT WAYS DID ORIGEN DISAGREE WITH THE CHURCH?

a) ORIGEN'S MISSIONARY ESOTERICISM

b) THE BOOK "ON THE ELEMENTS"

c) "ORIGEN-CENTAUR"

d) THE HISTORY OF ORIGEN'S BOOKS

(E) WHO PERSECUTED ORIGEN AND WHY?

f) CONTROVERSIES ABOUT ORIGEN BEFORE THE FIFTH COUNCIL

(g) WHO ANATHEMATIZED ORIGEN?

h) SUBSEQUENT CONDEMNATIONS OF ORIGENISM

i) WAS THERE NOVELTY IN THE REJECTION OF ORIGENISM?