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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... her not only a dialogue partner extraordinaire but also a woman I plan to be around the rest of my life. I have dedicated the book to her. Major Christian Apocrypha Discussed Date and Contents (Arranged alphabetically, by x PREFACE.
... her not only a dialogue partner extraordinaire but also a woman I plan to be around the rest of my life. I have dedicated the book to her. Major Christian Apocrypha Discussed Date and Contents (Arranged alphabetically, by x PREFACE.
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... woman Salome figures Egyptians prominently, used by non-Jewish Christians in Egypt and stressing ascetic ideals Gospel of Mary 2nd c. Dialogue of Mary Magdalene with the apostles in which she reveals a vision granted to her conveying ...
... woman Salome figures Egyptians prominently, used by non-Jewish Christians in Egypt and stressing ascetic ideals Gospel of Mary 2nd c. Dialogue of Mary Magdalene with the apostles in which she reveals a vision granted to her conveying ...
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... women who braid their hair to make themselves attractive, anyone who disobeys their parents, and bankers who lend money out at interest); and the Gospel of Peter, which is intolerant of Jews—who are portrayed as ignominious and ...
... women who braid their hair to make themselves attractive, anyone who disobeys their parents, and bankers who lend money out at interest); and the Gospel of Peter, which is intolerant of Jews—who are portrayed as ignominious and ...
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... women companions to the tomb to provide a more adequate burial for Jesus' body. But the tomb is empty, save for a heavenly visitor who tells her that the Lord has risen and gone. The manuscript then ends in the middle of a story that ...
... women companions to the tomb to provide a more adequate burial for Jesus' body. But the tomb is empty, save for a heavenly visitor who tells her that the Lord has risen and gone. The manuscript then ends in the middle of a story that ...
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... women who braided their hair to make themselves attractive to lustful men are hanged by their hair; the men who committed fornication with these women are hanged by their genitals. Those who trusted in riches are eternally cast onto a ...
... women who braided their hair to make themselves attractive to lustful men are hanged by their hair; the men who committed fornication with these women are hanged by their genitals. Those who trusted in riches are eternally cast onto a ...
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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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