Lost Christianities: Christian Scriptures and the Battles over Authentication (Audiobook)
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In the first centuries after Christ, there was no "official" New Testament. Instead, early Christians read and fervently followed a wide variety of Scriptures—many more than we have today.
Relying on these writings, Christians held beliefs that today would be considered bizarre. Some believed that there were two, 12, or as many as 30 gods. Some thought that a malicious deity, rather than the true God, created the world. Some maintained that Christ's death and resurrection had nothing to do with salvation while others insisted that Christ never really died at all.
What did these "other" Scriptures say? Do they exist today? How could such outlandish ideas ever be considered Christian? If such beliefs were once common, why do they no longer exist? These are just a few of the many provocative questions that arise from Lost Christianities: Christian Scriptures and the Battles over Authentication.
[b]The Struggle Within Christianity[/b]
"This is a highly educational trip into the confusion that often existed in the early church and how the church moved from there to the point of a consistent creed," writes Harold McFarland, editor of Midwest Book Review. Professor Bart D. Ehrman, who has recorded The Historical Jesus and The New Testament for The Teaching Company, returns to lend his expert guidance as you follow scholars' efforts to recover knowledge of early Christian groups that lost the struggle for converts, and simply disappeared.
This course focuses on the remarkable fact that many of the struggles of early Christians were not against pagans or other nonbelievers but against other Christians. Professor Ehrman will introduce you to these groups.
The Ebionites were Jewish Christians who followed Jewish laws but accepted Jesus as the Messiah without believing he was divine.
The Marcionites rejected Judaism completely to the extent that they believed that the God of the Old Testament and the God of Jesus were two separate Gods.
And the Gnostics believed that there was one true God but that there were also many other deities. In addition, they thought salvation came not from Christ's death and resurrection but from secret knowledge, or gnosis, of who one really was, where one came from, and how one could return to the heavenly home.
[hide=Course Lecture Titles][list][*]1. The Diversity of Early Christianity
[*]2. Christians Who Would Be Jews
[*]3. Christians Who Refuse To Be Jews
[*]4. Early Gnostic Christianity-Our Sources
[*]5. Early Christian Gnosticism-An Overview
[*]6. The Gnostic Gospel of Truth
[*]7. Gnostics Explain Themselves
[*]8. The Coptic Gospel of Thomas
[*]9. Thomas' Gnostic Teachings
[*]10. Infancy Gospels
[*]11. The Gospel of Peter
[*]12. The Secret Gospel of Mark
[*]13. The Acts of John
[*]14. The Acts of Thomas
[*]15. The Acts of Paul and Thecla
[*]16. Forgeries in the Name of Paul
[*]17. The Epistle of Barnabas
[*]18. The Apocalypse of Peter
[*]19. The Rise of Early Christian Orthodoxy
[*]20. Beginnings of the Canon
[*]21. Formation of the New Testament Canon
[*]22. Interpretation of Scripture
[*]23. Orthodox Corruption of Scripture
[*]24. Early Christian Creeds
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