The messianic legacy
By: Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln
Contributors: Leigh, Richard; Lincoln, Henry
Publisher: Dell
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 425
ISBN-13: 9780440203193
Copyright date: 1986
Subjects: Messianism; Prieuré de Sion; History
Description: "Startling new evidence about Jesus Christ and a secret society still influential today"--Cover subtitle.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 376-385) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Part One: The Messiah; title: Scholarship and public understanding; title: Jesus as King of Israel; title: Constantine as Messiah; title: Jesus as a freedom-fighter; title: The Zadokite movement of Qumran; title: The formation of Christianity; title: The brothers of Jesus; title: The survival of Nazarean teaching; title: The last days; title: Part Two: The quest for meaning; title: The activation of symbol; title: The loss of faith; title: Substitute faiths: Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany; title: The post-war crisis and social desperation; title: Trust and power; title: The artist as priest, the king as symbol; title: Towards an embrace of armageddon; title: Part Three: The cabal; title: Fragments in the post; title: The British connection; title: The anonymous tracts; title: The elusive "American contingent"; title: The vista widens; title: Resistance, chivalry, and the United States of Europe; title: The return of De Gaulle; title: Secret powers behind covert groups; title: Epilogue.