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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... word about what is, or at least what was, at stake. Throughout the course of our study I will be asking the question: What if it had been otherwise? What if some other form of Christianity had become dominant, instead of the one that ...
... word about what is, or at least what was, at stake. Throughout the course of our study I will be asking the question: What if it had been otherwise? What if some other form of Christianity had become dominant, instead of the one that ...
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... word about terms. As I pointed out, scholars sometimes refer to forged documents as pseudonymous writings, or they use the technical term pseudepigrapha, meaning “false writings” but taken to mean “writings written under a false name ...
... word about terms. As I pointed out, scholars sometimes refer to forged documents as pseudonymous writings, or they use the technical term pseudepigrapha, meaning “false writings” but taken to mean “writings written under a false name ...
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... words, “Wonder at the things that are before you, making this the first step to further knowledge” (Miscellanies 2.9.45).4 The other Gospel that Origen mentions, the Gospel of Thomas, has been discovered in its entirety in modern times ...
... words, “Wonder at the things that are before you, making this the first step to further knowledge” (Miscellanies 2.9.45).4 The other Gospel that Origen mentions, the Gospel of Thomas, has been discovered in its entirety in modern times ...
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... word for “appear” or “seem” is doceo, hence the terms docetic/docetism). For these docetists, Jesus' body was a phantasm. There were other Christians charged with being docetic who took a slightly different tack. For them, Jesus was a ...
... word for “appear” or “seem” is doceo, hence the terms docetic/docetism). For these docetists, Jesus' body was a phantasm. There were other Christians charged with being docetic who took a slightly different tack. For them, Jesus was a ...
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... words: . . . but none of the Jews washed his hands, nor did Herod or any of his judges. Since they did not wish to wash, Pilate stood up. It is a significant beginning for two reasons. It shows that, just before the fragment begins, the ...
... words: . . . but none of the Jews washed his hands, nor did Herod or any of his judges. Since they did not wish to wash, Pilate stood up. It is a significant beginning for two reasons. It shows that, just before the fragment begins, the ...
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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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