Following the extraordinary and ongoing success of his 2004 book The Pagan Christ , scholar and author Tom Harpur was deluged with readers’ requests to go more deeply into the mythological, allegorical approach to the story of Jesus he took in that bestselling book. In Water Into Wine , Harpur sets out the powerful and transforming message that emerges when the Gospels are finally read as they were originally intended to be and as they were understood by the first Christians, such as Origen...
Tom Harpur is one of the world’s great writers on the topics of Christianity and ethics and the author of many bestselling books. This special four-book bundle collects: Water Into Wine: An Empowering Vision of the Gospels , an examination of the story and meaning of Jesus’ life; Born Again: My Journey from Fundamentalism to Freedom , in which Harpur relates the personal story of his spiritual development; the perennial bestseller The Pagan Christ: Recovering the Lost Light ; and There Is...
What happens when we die? Will we simply dissolve into nothingness, or will we survive death in some other form? Issues of death and dying have consumed humanity from time immemorial. In our modern western culture, we have tended out of fear to deny and push death away. And yet, a healthy consideration of this issue can help us embrace and understand what happens to us when we die. There is Life After Death is Tom Harpur’s classic examination of death and dying. Now fully revised and...
On the heels of his towering bestseller, The Pagan Christ , comes a timely collection of writing about spirituality by Tom Harpur. This new book highlights fifteen years of Harpur’s most popular and insightful columns from the Toronto Star. Organized into five sections, the articles in this collection explore five main themes: how to find meaning in our liveshow to develop a more rational, fulfilling and contemporary faithhow to discover who we really are amidst the chaos of the modern...