Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew and Lost Scriptures: Books that Did Not Make It into the New Testament: 2-Volume Set
 

Lost Christianities/ Lost Scriptures

by Bart D. Ehrman

This unique set combines two of Bart Ehrman's most popular works on the early Christian church--Lost Scriptures and Lost Christianities-- and gives readers a vivid picture of the range of beliefs that battled each other in the first centuries of the Christian era. (read review)

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"Part of the proto-orthodox strategy involved stressing the notion of "unity" on all levels. The proto-orthodox stressed the unity of God with his creation: There is one God, and he created the world. They stressed the unity of God and Jesus: Jesus is the one son of the one God. They stressed the unity of Jesus and Christ: He is "one and the same." They stressed the unity of the church: Divisions are caused by heretics. And they stressed the unity of truth: Truth is not...

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