Reincarnation: The Missing Link In Christianity

by Erin L. Prophet, Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Elizabeth C. Prophet

Book Overview

A long time ago Christians believed in reincarnation.

This groundbreaking work makes the case that Jesus taught reincarnation. Elizabeth Clare Prophet traces the history of reincarnation in Christianity--from Jesus and early Christians through Church councils and the persecution of so-called heretics. Using the latest scholarship and evidence from the Dead Sea Scrolls and Gnostic texts, she also argues persuasively that Jesus...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0922729271
• ISBN13: 9780922729272
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Summit University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Fascinating and Spiritually Satisfying

I was assigned a research paper for my English class and we were permitted to pick whatever topic we wished. Reincarnation is something that has always fascinated me, and since I am a Christian who believes in reincarnation, I decided to write my paper on reincarnation in early Christianity, the Bible, and its revival in modern society. I needed 15 sources, but this book could stand on its own! Prophet discusses historical justification for reincarnation in Christianity as it relates to Jesus' teachings, the Bible, and the Roman Empire. It discusses the lost years of Jesus, and the possibility of him visiting India, and employing mysticism in his teachings. The practicality of reincarnation as she argues it left me spellbound. I was a believer to begin with, but after reading this, I am even more convinced that reincarnation belongs in Christian theology. Did you know there are approximately 28 MILLION Christians who believe in reincarnation? This is only one of the amazing things you will discover if you read this amazing book! Its food for the mind and it quenches the soul that believes there is more out there than our beloved Christianity is telling us! Trust me, it is amazing!

Excellent and well documented reading!!!

This is the most interesting and well documented work I have read about the missing link between Reincarnation and Christianity. Besides being informative and entertaining, it also opens your eyes to the history of the manipulation by the Catholic Church, and other Christian denominations, of the true teachings of Christ about life, death and the beyond.

Millennia of Denial

This is not simply an anthology of interesting of past life stories. It is an expose of how the concept and understanding of reincarnation has been withheld from civilization. How the powers that be (namely the Church and State) knowingly have controlled and supressed Truth for millennia. This was done in the ultimate sense: even genocide, to maintain an iron grip on the minds of those who inhabit this planet. Finally, through books like these Reality is beginning to bleed through. When you wake up to your own incarnations, you begin to wonder what kind of memories you are carrying around just below the surface of outer awareness. Are these brought to consciousness through dreams? Nightmares? Deja vu? Meeting someone you feel you've known all your life? Knowing something without knowing how or why you know it? All our memories, from our first life to this one are stored...guess where? Well, in that other 90% of our brains that we don't use and can't yet access, for a start. But we're getting there, thanks to our persistent searching for this door of self, and Self.It's a landmark book. And as full of documentation as it is, an easy and flowing read.

Most detailed account of reincarnation in Christianity

I thought this was going to be a dry, scholarly account of historical facts, but found it to be so readable, I had a hard time putting it down. The book gives the most detailed account I have seen of how and why the idea of reincarnation was systematically eradicated from orthodox Christianity. I have been fascinated by this topic since the age of 18 when I read in a footnote to Paramahansa Yogananda's book "Autobiography of a Yogi" that reincarnation was banned as heresy by the early church fathers. The idea that church potentates could have excluded something Jesus possibly taught was outrageous to me. I had to piece the puzzle toghether from many different sources, and I am grateful this book has finally pulled most of them together in one volume. At the same time the book gives a lot of teachings that explain many of the questions I had about reincarnation. I think just about anybody who is somewhat open to the idea of reincarnation, whether Christian or not, would find something of interest in this book. For anyone seriously interested in the topic, there are numerous references to other sources.