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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... forged. The author of 2 Peter explicitly claims to be Simon Peter, the disciple of Jesus, who beheld the transfiguration (1:16–18). But critical scholars are virtually unanimous that it was not written by him. So too the Pastoral ...
... forged. The author of 2 Peter explicitly claims to be Simon Peter, the disciple of Jesus, who beheld the transfiguration (1:16–18). But critical scholars are virtually unanimous that it was not written by him. So too the Pastoral ...
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... forged. The Christians who won the early conflicts and established their views as dominant by the fourth century not only gave us the creeds that have been handed down from antiquity,1 they also decided which books would belong to the ...
... forged. The Christians who won the early conflicts and established their views as dominant by the fourth century not only gave us the creeds that have been handed down from antiquity,1 they also decided which books would belong to the ...
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... forged on the site, with limited impact on the rest of Christendom? It was virtually unknown, after all, down through the ages until French archaeologists happened to find it in a monk's tomb. Nevertheless, there are indications that ...
... forged on the site, with limited impact on the rest of Christendom? It was virtually unknown, after all, down through the ages until French archaeologists happened to find it in a monk's tomb. Nevertheless, there are indications that ...
Pagina 29
... forged. Of course, we know that the Gospel of Peter was forged as well, along with other books we have already mentioned—the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Philip, and the Apocalypse of Peter—and scores of other books from the ancient ...
... forged. Of course, we know that the Gospel of Peter was forged as well, along with other books we have already mentioned—the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Philip, and the Apocalypse of Peter—and scores of other books from the ancient ...
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... forged the Acts of Paul and Thecla was caught and confessed to the deed. The. Practice. of. Forgery. in. Antiquity. Ancient people not only suspected forgery on occasion; they also had the means to detect it.2 It is wrong to say—as it ...
... forged the Acts of Paul and Thecla was caught and confessed to the deed. The. Practice. of. Forgery. in. Antiquity. Ancient people not only suspected forgery on occasion; they also had the means to detect it.2 It is wrong to say—as it ...
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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 |
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