The Forgotten Beginnings of Creation and Christianity
By Carl Anders Skriver
Translated and edited by Angela Ingle, Michael Skriver, and Keith Akers
Denver: Vegetarian Press, 1990
This book is now out of print from Vegetarian Press. The
best source is the American Vegan
Society, see their
catalog here. It
is also available as a used book through such sources as Abe
Books or Amazon but may be rather expensive there -- try American Vegan
Society first where you can get a brand new copy.
Carl Anders Skriver (1903-1983) has the distinction of being one of the first
modern scholars to argue that Jesus was a vegetarian on historical grounds.
Carl Skriver was an Evangelical Lutheran minister and a pioneer in the area of
Christian vegetarianism. In this book, his last major work, he goes back
to the "forgotten beginnings" of the world -- the original vegetarian
creation of the world, free from violence and killing. His
reinterpretations of the first chapters of Genesis show how the stories of Adam
and Eve, Cain and Abel, and Noah and the Flood can be understood in a vegetarian
way. A scholar of Vedic literature, Skriver shows parallels between both
the Genesis stories and the prophecies of a world-redeemer in other cultures
throughout the ancient East. Skriver also fundamentally revises conventional ideas about the
mission of Jesus -- as Jesus, also, sought to return the religion of his day to
these forgotten beginnings.
Read the Introduction to this book
Read Skriver's lecture at the
1982 World Vegetarian Congress
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