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Bart D. Ehrman · 2004
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What this book knows
Christianity's rise from obscure Jewish sect to imperial religion unfolded through theological rupture, missionary strategy, and institutional power over three centuries.
faith-and-doubt
The Christian movement did not start out as a culturally significant phenomenon; it began as a small, lower-class group following a teacher executed for treason.
GCJC-RC-004What God wanted was to follow the heart of his Law: love God above all else and love one's neighbor as oneself. The coming Kingdom was imminent.
GCJC-RC-016obedience-and-authority
How and why did Christianity become such a virulently anti-Jewish religion within just a century or so of its inception?
GCJC-RC-030Paul understood himself principally as apostle to the Gentiles, converting former pagans to belief in the one God of the Jews and Jesus, his Son.
GCJC-RC-024belonging
Faith in Christ was not just a Jewish option but available to all—Jews themselves now portrayed as outsiders to promises once made to their ancestors.
GCJC-RC-029Judaism stood out as unique: it alone insisted on exclusive worship of one God, setting Jews apart from the polytheistic world around them.
GCJC-RC-012Illuminates
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