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Neutral evaluation The "Lost Christianities" of Bart Ehrman is a very neutral description of the Christian history of the first 3 centuries AD. Ehrman has no axe to grind with competing scholars no dogmatic bias, just the open minded attempt to describe the different streams of Christianities before the orthodox were left as winners. Part 1 of the book is evaluating the different forgeries of Gospels, epistles, revelations and prophecies which were circulating in the ancient Middle East. Gospels of different authors... more info
Variety is the spice of this and the next life! This exploration of early Christianity is conducted in three parts: Forgeries & Discoveries, in which four intriguing texts are examined as representative of the wide variety of fabricated narratives in religious history; Heresies & Orthodoxies, an investigation and comparison of the divergent beliefs of various early Christian movements like the Ebionites, Marcionites, different Gnostic groups and the Proto-Orthodox; Winners & Losers, that considers the conflicts that unfolded... more info
Scary. If anyone is truly to know their faith then they must test it against that which their core beliefs hold most dear. Christians will find this difficult to read as it highlights many characteristics of our faith that don't hold true to that which we have grown up with.
To challenge these fundamentals is indeed scary or, at least, it was for me.
Some of these include; was Christ actually a normal person who's body was occupied by the son of God hence the words from the cross, 'Why hast thou... more info
The Politics of Christian Experience The huge interest in Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code" revealed diversities and inadequacies within contemporary Christianity. In turning for answers to early Christianity, diversities and inadequancies have been found there as well. Life is rarely simple nor do foolish simplifications make it so. Part 1 of "Lost Christianities", focused on forgeries, didn't grab me, but after that the book was absorbing. Ehrman covers a lot of ground, always with reminders of the inadequacies of labels. Unlike Karen... more info
