From Myth to Man: a review of Tom Harpur’s The Pagan Christ

Tom Harpur, the author of the Pagan Christ, has undergone a spiritual re-awakening and believes that the information revealed within his book represent "one of the most far-reaching tragedies in history." Harpur, (a columnist for the Toronto Star, a Rhodes scholar, and a former Anglican priest and professor of Greek and new Testament at the University of Toronto) suggests that during the third and fourth centuries C.E., the Christian Church, "either deliberately, in a competitive bid to win over the greatest numbers of the largely unlettered masses, or through willful ignorance" took a "literalist, popularized, historical approach to sublime truth."