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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... death , and resurrection , with an account of Jesus ' emergence from the tomb ; probably the Gospel proscribed Gospel of Philip 3rd c . Gospel of the Savior Late 2nd c . by the second - century bishop Serapion Collection of disparate ...
... death and the spiritual resurrection APOCALYPSES AND RELATED LITERATURE Title Probable Date Apocalypse of Paul 4th c . Apocalypse of Mid 2nd c Peter ( Coptic ) 3rd c . Apocalypse of Peter First Thought in Three Forms Late 2nd c ...
... death , in explicit opposition to proto - orthodox views Nag Hammadi treatise that provides a full Gnostic myth of creation and redemption , showing how the divine realm , the material world , and humans came into existence Proto ...
... death , inspiring his teachings and miracles but avoiding the suffer- ing in its aftermath . In the second and third centuries there were Christians who believed that Jesus ' death brought about the salvation of the world . There were ...
... death . But there were other Acts written in the early years of the church : the Acts of Peter and of John , the Acts of Paul , the Acts of Paul's female companion Thecla , and others . Why were these not included as parts of Scripture ...
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