Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never KnewOxford University Press, 15 sept. 2005 - 320 pagini The early Christian Church was a chaos of contending beliefs. Some groups of Christians claimed that there was not one God but two or twelve or thirty. Some believed that the world had not been created by God but by a lesser, ignorant deity. Certain sects maintained that Jesus was human but not divine, while others said he was divine but not human. In Lost Christianities, Bart D. Ehrman offers a fascinating look at these early forms of Christianity and shows how they came to be suppressed, reformed, or forgotten. All of these groups insisted that they upheld the teachings of Jesus and his apostles, and they all possessed writings that bore out their claims, books reputedly produced by Jesus's own followers. Modern archaeological work has recovered a number of key texts, and as Ehrman shows, these spectacular discoveries reveal religious diversity that says much about the ways in which history gets written by the winners. Ehrman's discussion ranges from considerations of various "lost scriptures"--including forged gospels supposedly written by Simon Peter, Jesus's closest disciple, and Judas Thomas, Jesus's alleged twin brother--to the disparate beliefs of such groups as the Jewish-Christian Ebionites, the anti-Jewish Marcionites, and various "Gnostic" sects. Ehrman examines in depth the battles that raged between "proto-orthodox Christians"--those who eventually compiled the canonical books of the New Testament and standardized Christian belief--and the groups they denounced as heretics and ultimately overcame. Scrupulously researched and lucidly written, Lost Christianities is an eye-opening account of politics, power, and the clash of ideas among Christians in the decades before one group came to see its views prevail. |
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... God had created the world. But others believed that this world had been created by a subordinate, ignorant divinity ... God. Others believed it was inspired by the God of the Jews, who was not the one true God. Others believed it was ...
... God had created the world. But others believed that this world had been created by a subordinate, ignorant divinity ... God. Others believed it was inspired by the God of the Jews, who was not the one true God. Others believed it was ...
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... gods, or that the true God had created the world, or that Jesus had died? Why didn't they just read the New Testament? It is because there was no New Testament. To be sure, the books that were eventually collected into the New Testament ...
... gods, or that the true God had created the world, or that Jesus had died? Why didn't they just read the New Testament? It is because there was no New Testament. To be sure, the books that were eventually collected into the New Testament ...
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... God, that he is the creator, that Christ his son is both human and divine. The doctrine of the Trinity might never ... gods of Greece and Rome. On the other hand, the empire might have converted to a different form of Christianity and ...
... God, that he is the creator, that Christ his son is both human and divine. The doctrine of the Trinity might never ... gods of Greece and Rome. On the other hand, the empire might have converted to a different form of Christianity and ...
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... God he could not have a material body like the rest of us; as divine he could not actually suffer and die. This, then, was the view that Jesus was not really a flesh-and-blood human but only “appeared” to be so (the Greek word for ...
... God he could not have a material body like the rest of us; as divine he could not actually suffer and die. This, then, was the view that Jesus was not really a flesh-and-blood human but only “appeared” to be so (the Greek word for ...
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... god. The Senate proved recalcitrant, however, so that even though the emperor acknowledged Christ's divinity, he was not allotted a place in the Roman pantheon (Tertullian, Apology 5). Pilate, however, was said to have converted after ...
... god. The Senate proved recalcitrant, however, so that even though the emperor acknowledged Christ's divinity, he was not allotted a place in the Roman pantheon (Tertullian, Apology 5). Pilate, however, was said to have converted after ...
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Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew Bart D. Ehrman Previzualizare limitată - 2005 |
Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew Bart D. Ehrman Previzualizare limitată - 2005 |
Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew Bart D. Ehrman Previzualizare limitată - 2005 |
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