Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never KnewOxford University Press, 2005 - 294 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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... Apostles Mid 2nd c . Anti - Gnostic dialogue between Jesus and the disciples after the resurrection , emphasizing the reality of the flesh and of Jesus ' own fleshly resurrection Gospel according Early 2nd c . A Gospel recording events ...
... apostles of Jesus . The Lost Scriptures The Gospels that came to be included in the New Testament were all written anonymously ; only at a later time were they called by the names of their re- puted authors , Matthew , Mark , Luke , and ...
... apostles , that its perspective , in effect , had always been " orthodox " ( i.e. , the " right belief " ) and that its op- ponents in the conflict , with their other scriptural texts , had always represented small splinter groups ...
... apostles . In this book we will examine these lost books that have now been found , along with other books that were marginalized by the victorious party but have been known by scholars for centuries . We will also consider how the ...
... apostles ) , and collected other early writings into a sacred canon of Scripture to advance their views and counteract the views of others . It is out of these conflicts that the New Testament came into being , a collection of twenty ...
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