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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... sacred texts . Some of these texts came to be included in the New Testament . Others came to be rejected , attacked , suppressed , and destroyed . My goals are to ex- amine some of these noncanonical writings , see what they can tell us ...
... comparison . Most of these ancient forms of Christianity are unknown to people in the world today , since they eventually came to be reformed or stamped out . As a result , the sacred texts that some ancient Christians used 1 III.
... sacred texts that some ancient Christians used to support their reli- gious perspectives came to be proscribed , destroyed , or forgotten — in one way or another lost . Many of these texts claimed to be written by Jesus ' closest ...
... sacred texts that were read and revered by different Chris- tian groups throughout the world : a Gospel , for example , claiming to be written by Jesus ' closest disciple , Simon Peter ; another by his apostle Philip ; a Gospel ...
... sacred , inspired , scriptural . Some of them we now have ; others we know only by name . Only twenty - seven of the early Christian books were finally included in the canon , copied by scribes through the ages , eventually translated ...
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