Christianity and Reincarnation

As many readers may be aware, Rudolf Steiner wrote extensively on reincarnation with a more Western view. The author was one of the founders of The Christian Community and in this book provides a scholarly account of Western thinking around this question with a deep knowledge of biblical sources. He has an interesting quote from Schelling, where he says that Christ is not the teacher or inaugurator of Christianity, but rather its content - this provides an important point of departure for Frieling's analysis, especially of Christ becoming man and what it really means for man to become a Christian in terms of growth and development. He fully integrates reincarnation into Christian doctrine with a number of interesting examples taken from the Bible itself and a particularly interesting chapter on human evolution in the Apocalypse of John. It is an encouraging and hopeful vision.