After I finished reading Pagan Christianity, I went and read the negative reviews on amazon.com.
The book, by the way, is fantastic! As I was reading it, I just wanted to tell everybody what I had just read. Now that I am finished, I plan to go back and use the notes that I took to put together a presentation for my youth group (it was THAT good).
Anyway, the negative reviews made me worry that I had just wasted my time reading a biased, unreliable, poorly cited pseudo-history. I took these worries to Frank Viola's website via e-mail, and I was replied to the very next day. The reply was personal and made me feel that my questions were actually valued. In the response was a link to an article on Viola's website that addresses many of the points the negative reviewers have brought up ([...]).
It seems like it is difficult to find factual Christian books that have minimal bias and are free from manipulation and deception. Pagan Christianity is one of these rarities.
If you want to know more about what's in the book, look at the table of contents online.Get more detail about Pagan Christianity?: Exploring the Roots of Our Church Practices.
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