Parsons asks whether the stauros on which Jesus died was cross-shaped at all, examines what Minucius Felix, Irenaeus and the other Fathers say, and argues that the cross was an ancient pre-Christian emblem adopted by the Church only later. He ends with the crescent, the coronation orb and other symbols of power.
A freethinker’s polemic whose conclusions most historians would not accept wholesale, but a curious chapter in the history of religious controversy. Download the free EPUB.