Lost Christianities
The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew
Ranked #26 in Gnosticism, Ranked #63 in History of Christianity — see more rankings.
The early Christian Church was a chaos of contending beliefs. Some groups of Christians claimed that there was not one God but two or twelve or thirty. Some believed that the world had not been created by God but by a lesser, ignorant deity. Certain sects maintained that Jesus was human but not divine, while others said he was divine but not human.
In Lost Christianities, Bart D. Ehrman offers a fascinating look at these early forms of Christianity and shows how they came to be suppressed, reformed, or forgotten. All of these groups insisted that they upheld the teachings of... more
In Lost Christianities, Bart D. Ehrman offers a fascinating look at these early forms of Christianity and shows how they came to be suppressed, reformed, or forgotten. All of these groups insisted that they upheld the teachings of... more
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Lost Christianities is ranked in the following categories:
- #83 in Apocrypha
- #65 in History Of Religion
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