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Lost Christianities
Author | : Bart D. Ehrman |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0195182499 |
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The early Christian Church was a chaos of contending beliefs. 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' own followers. 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.
Lost Scriptures
Author | : Bart D. Ehrman |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2005-09-15 |
Genre | : Bibles |
ISBN | : 9780195182507 |
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A companion volume to Lost Christianities, this remarkable anthology of long-lost Christian writings that were never included in the New Testaments includes fifteen additional gospels, thirteen epistles, five non-canonical Acts of the Apostles, Apocalypes and Secret Books, and brief introductions to each. History Dual Main. (Scripture)
Lost Christianity
Author | : Jacob Needleman |
Publsiher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2003-08-25 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781585422531 |
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Unavailable for several years, Lost Christianity is a profound reexamination of the essence of Christian thought and faith. Philosopher and bestselling author Jacob Needleman has sought out the ancient texts and modern practitioners of essential Christianity, whose message speaks directly to contemporary seekers.
Misquoting Jesus
Author | : Bart D. Ehrman |
Publsiher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2009-10-06 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780061977022 |
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When world-class biblical scholar Bart Ehrman first began to study the texts of the Bible in their original languages he was startled to discover the multitude of mistakes and intentional alterations that had been made by earlier translators. In Misquoting Jesus, Ehrman tells the story behind the mistakes and changes that ancient scribes made to the New Testament and shows the great impact they had upon the Bible we use today. He frames his account with personal reflections on how his study of the Greek manuscripts made him abandon his once ultraconservative views of the Bible. Since the advent of the printing press and the accurate reproduction of texts, most people have assumed that when they read the New Testament they are reading an exact copy of Jesus's words or Saint Paul's writings. And yet, for almost fifteen hundred years these manuscripts were hand copied by scribes who were deeply influenced by the cultural, theological, and political disputes of their day. Both mistakes and intentional changes abound in the surviving manuscripts, making the original words difficult to reconstruct. For the first time, Ehrman reveals where and why these changes were made and how scholars go about reconstructing the original words of the New Testament as closely as possible. Ehrman makes the provocative case that many of our cherished biblical stories and widely held beliefs concerning the divinity of Jesus, the Trinity, and the divine origins of the Bible itself stem from both intentional and accidental alterations by scribes -- alterations that dramatically affected all subsequent versions of the Bible.
The Lost History of Christianity
Author | : John Philip Jenkins |
Publsiher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2008-10-28 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780061472800 |
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In this groundbreaking book, renowned religion scholar Philip Jenkins offers a lost history, revealing that, for centuries, Christianity's center was actually in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa, with significant communities extending as far as China. The Lost History of Christianity unveils a vast and forgotten network of the world's largest and most influential Christian churches that existed to the east of the Roman Empire. These churches and their leaders ruled the Middle East for centuries and became the chief administrators and academics in the new Muslim empire. The author recounts the shocking history of how these churches—those that had the closest link to Jesus and the early church—died. Jenkins takes a stand against current scholars who assert that variant, alternative Christianities disappeared in the fourth and fifth centuries on the heels of a newly formed hierarchy under Constantine, intent on crushing unorthodox views. In reality, Jenkins says, the largest churches in the world were the “heretics” who lost the orthodoxy battles. These so-called heretics were in fact the most influential Christian groups throughout Asia, and their influence lasted an additional one thousand years beyond their supposed demise. Jenkins offers a new lens through which to view our world today, including the current conflicts in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. Without this lost history, we lack an important element for understanding our collective religious past. By understanding the forgotten catastrophe that befell Christianity, we can appreciate the surprising new births that are occurring in our own time, once again making Christianity a true world religion.
The Lost Gospel Q
Author | : Marcus Borg |
Publsiher | : Ulysses Press |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 1999-03-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781569751893 |
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Presents the original teachings of Jesus written by his contemporaries and early followers
Misquoting Truth
Author | : Timothy Paul Jones |
Publsiher | : InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2007-05-23 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780830834471 |
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In clear, concise prose, Timothy Paul Jones takes on Bart Ehrman's misleading conclusions about how we got the New Testament, how the New Testament documents have been transmitted and what kind of diversity existed among early Christians.
The Triumph of Christianity
Author | : Bart D. Ehrman |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2018-02-22 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781786073020 |
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How did Christianity become the dominant religion in the West? In the early first century, a small group of peasants from the backwaters of the Roman Empire proclaimed that an executed enemy of the state was God’s messiah. Less than four hundred years later it had become the official religion of Rome with some thirty million followers. It could so easily have been a forgotten sect of Judaism. Through meticulous research, Bart Ehrman, an expert on Christian history, texts and traditions, explores the way we think about one of the most important cultural transformations the world has ever seen, one that has shaped the art, music, literature, philosophy, ethics and economics of modern Western civilisation.