Alvin Boyd Kuhn

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Alvin Boyd Kuhn (September 22, 1880 - 1963) was a scholar of comparative religions. He started his career working as a language teacher in high schools. He enrolled in the Columbia University to work on his PhD on Theosophy. His first book, Theosophy: A Modern Revival of the Ancient Wisdom (1930), was based on his thesis. Kuhn was much influenced by the research of Gerald Massey. Kuhn contended that the Bible derived its origins from other Pagan religions and much of Christian history was pre-extant as Egyptian mythology. He also proposed that the Bible was symbolic and did not depict real events, and argued that the leaders of the church started to misinterpret the bible at the end of the third century (CE). Many authors including Tom Harpur (The Pagan Christ) were influenced by the works of Kuhn. His final book, A Rebirth for Christianity, was written shortly before his death in 1963.

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Year	Title	Notes
1930	Theosophy: A Modern Revival of Ancient Wisdom	Thesis on Theosophy
1940	The Lost Light: An Interpretation of Ancient Scriptures
1947	The Tree of Knowledge
1949	The Shadow of the Third Century: A Revaluation of Christianity
1963	A Rebirth for Christianity