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The Pagan Temptation Paperback – May, 1987

by Thomas Molnar (Author)
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  • Paperback: 201 pages
  • Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co (May 1987)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0802802621
  • ISBN-13: 978-0802802620
  • Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsThe Pagan Temptation Countered with Christian Myth and Symbol
By Bradley P. Hayton on February 25, 2012
Format: Paperback
Thomas Molnar, a distinguished Catholic philosopher at Yale, describes this paganism in much more detail. Although the book seems to ramble at times and is not clearly outlined within its chapters, Molnar probes deep into the roots of paganism, into its Greek and Eastern origins, its development through the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and follows it up to the present.

Paganism has always been a natural religion, emphasizing oneness with nature and the self, human autonomy from any transcendent Being, experience over morality and action and history, irrational over the rational. In contrast, the distinctive of Christianity have been the dialectical tensions of reason, faith, and history. Autonomous reason leads to rationalism, autonomous faith leads to mysticism, and both lead to paganism.

Paganism, as well as neopaganism, emphasizes the self: "The amoral nature of the pagan gods permits the pagan to jettison the moral burden and, in the long run, to adopt a value-free reflection, focusing not on moral betterment, but on improvement of intellectual, psychological, and biological qualities" (p. 113). In sum, it stresses immanence rather than transcendence. He examines this paganistic impulse in the thought of existentialism and other modern philosophy, anthropology and psychology (Eliade, Jung, Girard, Campbell, Levi-Strauss, et al.), physics, and biology. All look towards the East and the Occult to resacralize the universe. Eliade, Girard and Jung all "present myth making and symbol seeking as therapies for treating a civilizational sickness - but no more than therapies" (p. 172). God is merely a projection, a human product, and therefore the self is left alone in a meaningless universe, a self that must construct its meaning through its own archetypes.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsThis book converted me
By miasarx on December 7, 2011
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This book had a HUGE impact on my life. It literally converted me from paganism to Catholicism. I recommend all of Molnar's books. He was an orthodox Catholic philosopher.

BTW, I have now been Catholic since 1992. Never been happier.

Viva Christo Rey!
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