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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... century bishop Serapion Collection of disparate Gnostic mystical reflections recorded by his disciple Philip ; discovered at Nag Hammadi Fragmentary Coptic Gospel recounting Jesus ' last hours , including his prayer before his arrest ...
... centuries there were , of course , Christians who believed in one God . But there were others who insisted that there were two . Some said there were thirty . Others claimed there were 365 . In the second and third centuries there were ...
... century . But they had not yet been gathered into a widely recognized and au- thoritative canon of Scripture . 1 And there were other books written as well , with equally impressive pedigrees — other Gospels , Acts , Epistles , and ...
... century , the Shepherd of Hermas , which , like the book of Revelation , is filled with apocalyptic visions of a ... centuries of Christianity . As I have already pointed out , modern Christianity is not lacking in a diversity of its own ...
... century as some scholars began to question the " objectivity " of such early Christian writers as the fourth - century orthodox author Eusebius , the so - called Father of Church History , who reproduced for us the earliest account of ...
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