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For reviewers, bloggers, podcasters and group leaders: a free copy of Dismantling Religion, and everything you need to decide whether it is worth your time.
What the book argues
Dismantling Religion examines whether the central events of Christian eschatology belong to history rather than to a future still pending. It works through four movements: the case that religion functions as separation and mediation; the argument that Jesus described events his own generation would witness; the claim that a thousand-year period runs to 1096 and that what follows it can be dated; and finally what any of that means for how a person lives now.
The method is cumulative rather than declarative. Each chapter is built from primary sources the reader can check — Josephus, Tacitus, Eusebius, medieval chronicles, ice-core and tree-ring data, and the Greek text — and the book is explicit where its argument is a proposal rather than a proof.
What is inside
- The personal account that opens the book, and the religious system that replaced it
- Scripture as testimony rather than as an object of worship
- The argument that divine immutability entered Christian theology through Greek philosophy
- Jerusalem, 66–70, in the sources that witnessed it
- Revelation 20 read as sequence rather than symbol
- Gog and Magog, the First Crusade, and four chroniclers who recorded fire in the sky
- The second resurrection, and three authorities who changed their doctrine at once
- The environmental cascade of 1100–1300
- Death, the New Jerusalem, and the Spirit poured out on all flesh
- Four appendices, including a treatment of common objections
Who it is written for
Readers who have left, or are leaving, institutional Christianity and are not willing to replace one set of unexamined claims with another. The book does not ask for agreement. It asks to be weighed.
Formats available to reviewers
- Kindle — available on Amazon, and free review copies on request
- EPUB and PDF — sent directly, no strings attached
- Paperback — available for reviewers who need print
There is no requirement to review favourably, and no expectation that you will review at all. An honest negative review is more useful to readers than a polite one.
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For readers who are not reviewers
You do not need to be anybody to read this book. It is on Amazon, and the articles at the article index summarise the arguments for free.