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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... traditions of Peter's death, however, indicate that he was executed during the persecution of Christians under the emperor Nero, around 64 CE. The author of the Gospel of Peter may have utilized the Gospels of the New Testament for his ...
... traditions of Peter's death, however, indicate that he was executed during the persecution of Christians under the emperor Nero, around 64 CE. The author of the Gospel of Peter may have utilized the Gospels of the New Testament for his ...
Pagina 21
... traditions about Pilate's innocence did not stop there. Some years later, around 200 CE, the proto-orthodox Christian apologist (i.e., intellectual defender of the faith), heresiologist (i.e., exposer of heresies), and moralist ...
... traditions about Pilate's innocence did not stop there. Some years later, around 200 CE, the proto-orthodox Christian apologist (i.e., intellectual defender of the faith), heresiologist (i.e., exposer of heresies), and moralist ...
Pagina 26
... tradition, going back at least to the once-lost but now-found Apocalypse of Peter.20 The account begins with Jesus teaching his disciples on the Mount of Olives and the disciples asking when the end will come (cf. Matthew 24). Jesus ...
... tradition, going back at least to the once-lost but now-found Apocalypse of Peter.20 The account begins with Jesus teaching his disciples on the Mount of Olives and the disciples asking when the end will come (cf. Matthew 24). Jesus ...
Pagina 29
... traditions, possibly from the early second century onwards. But they are best known from a written account, the Acts of Thecla, eventually included in part of a larger corpus of writings known as the Acts of Paul, which narrates tales ...
... traditions, possibly from the early second century onwards. But they are best known from a written account, the Acts of Thecla, eventually included in part of a larger corpus of writings known as the Acts of Paul, which narrates tales ...
Pagina 32
... traditions that had been in circulation for years, and used them to compose a literary account.8 The full text of the Acts of Paul included not only stories of Paul's adventures as a miracle-working apostle and the narrative of Thecla ...
... traditions that had been in circulation for years, and used them to compose a literary account.8 The full text of the Acts of Paul included not only stories of Paul's adventures as a miracle-working apostle and the narrative of Thecla ...
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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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