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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... teaching at Hofstra University, and Diane Wudel, now teaching at Wake Forest Divinity School. An inordinate amount of the research assistantship fell on the shoulders of my current graduate student, Carl Cosaert, who bore the burden ...
... teaching at Hofstra University, and Diane Wudel, now teaching at Wake Forest Divinity School. An inordinate amount of the research assistantship fell on the shoulders of my current graduate student, Carl Cosaert, who bore the burden ...
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... teachings Gospel of the Early 2nd c. An Aramaic version of Matthew's Gospel, Nazareans possibly lacking the first two chapters, used by Jewish Christians Gospel of 5th c. Legendary account of Jesus' trial before Pilate, Nicodemus his ...
... teachings Gospel of the Early 2nd c. An Aramaic version of Matthew's Gospel, Nazareans possibly lacking the first two chapters, used by Jewish Christians Gospel of 5th c. Legendary account of Jesus' trial before Pilate, Nicodemus his ...
Pagina 2
... teachings and miracles but avoiding the suffering in its aftermath. In the second and third centuries there were Christians who believed that Jesus' death brought about the salvation of the world. There were other Christians who thought ...
... teachings and miracles but avoiding the suffering in its aftermath. In the second and third centuries there were Christians who believed that Jesus' death brought about the salvation of the world. There were other Christians who thought ...
Pagina 4
... teaching false ideas. And then, as a coup de grâce, this victorious party rewrote the history of the controversy, making it appear that there had not been much of a conflict at all, claiming that its own views had always been those of ...
... teaching false ideas. And then, as a coup de grâce, this victorious party rewrote the history of the controversy, making it appear that there had not been much of a conflict at all, claiming that its own views had always been those of ...
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... teachings) and, in many instances, forged. The Christians who won the early conflicts and established their views as dominant by the fourth century not only gave us the creeds that have been handed down from antiquity,1 they also ...
... teachings) and, in many instances, forged. The Christians who won the early conflicts and established their views as dominant by the fourth century not only gave us the creeds that have been handed down from antiquity,1 they also ...
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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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