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Bart D. Ehrman · 2002
Sequence ladder
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What this book knows
Early Christianity was a cacophony of competing scriptures and beliefs; orthodoxy won by suppressing the rest, not by being original.
self-and-identity
Some Christians maintained that there were two Gods, or twelve, or thirty, or more… some claimed Jesus was not really human, or not really divine.
GCLC-RC-004Without sex or marriage, women were liberated from a male-dominated society. A cult surrounding Thecla continued into the Middle Ages.
GCLC-RC-058obedience-and-authority
Which books were actually by apostles? How would we know? What happened to all the other books that did not make it in?
GCLC-RC-010The proto-orthodox party invested ecclesiastical power in its clergy, developed its canon, and formed the hierarchy that became a mainstay of the church.
GCLC-RC-006faith-and-doubt
Why didn't early Christians simply read the New Testament to see they were wrong? Because the New Testament did not yet exist.
GCLC-RC-009Jesus was not actually born into this world or part of it—not flesh-and-blood but a phantasm. Scholars call this view docetism.
GCLC-RC-017Illuminates
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