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Lost Christianities
Bart Ehrman
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Description for Lost Christianities
Paperback. The early Christian Church was a chaos of contending beliefs. Some groups Christians claimed that there was just not one God. Certain sects maintained that Jesus was human but not divine; and others that he was divine but not human. This book offers a study of these forms of Christianity, and how they came to be suppressed, reformed, or forgotten. Num Pages: 320 pages, numerous halftones. BIC Classification: HRCC2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 430.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195182491
SKU
V9780195182491
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99-12
About Bart Ehrman
Bart D. Ehrman chairs the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. An authority on the early Church and the life of Jesus, he has appeared on A&E, the History Channel, CNN, and other television and radio shows. He has taped several highly popular lecture series for the "Teaching Company" and is the author ... Read more
Reviews for Lost Christianities
"An illuminating book."
Noel Rooney, Fortean Times
Noel Rooney, Fortean Times