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b'John Shuck begins a five-part series on Revisioning Christianity. How did Christianity triumph? Was it a hoax? Is it unbelievable? Does it yet have a message to inspire peace and justice?\\xa0 My five guests include\\xa0Bart Ehrman, author of the newly released,\\xa0The Triumph of Christianity: How A Forbidden Religion Swept the World,\\xa0John Shelby Spong, author of the newly released,\\xa0Unbelievable: Why Neither Ancient Creeds Nor the Reformation Can Produce a Living Faith Today,\\xa0David Skrbina, author of the newly released, The Jesus Hoax: How St. Paul\'s Cabal Fooled the World for Two Thousand Years,\\xa0Angela Yarber, creator of the\\xa0Holy Women Icons Project, and starting us off,\\xa0John Dominic Crossan, who with his wife, Sarah Sexton Crossan have just released\\xa0Resurrecting Easter: How the West Lost and the East Kept the Original Easter Vision.\\nProfessor John Dominic Crossan is regarded as the foremost historical Jesus scholar of our time. He is the author of 30 or so books including his hugely influential,\\xa0The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant. This is the third time Professor Crossan has been on Progressive Spirit. Previously on this show we discussed his books,\\xa0The Power of Parable: How Fiction by Jesus became fiction about Jesus, and\\xa0How to Read the Bible and Still Be a Christian: Struggling with Divine Violence from Genesis Through Revelation.\\nIn this episode, we discuss how the vision of Easter as depicted in the Eastern iconography of Anastasis "rising up" symbolizes non-violent resistance to empire.Re'