02366cam a2200277 4500 1022587701 TxAuBib 20210401120000.0 190330s2003||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2003053097 9780195141832 0195141830 TxAuBib Ehrman, Bart D. Lost Christianities : the battles for scripture and the faiths we never knew / Bart D. Ehrman. New York : Oxford University Press, 2003. xi, 294 pages : ill. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-287) and index. Major Christian Apocrypha discussed, dates and contents -- Introduction: Recouping our losses -- Part 1: Forgeries and discoveries. The ancient discovery of a forgery : Serapion and the Gospel of Peter ;The ancient forgery of a discovery : the Acts of Paul and Thecla ; The discovery of an ancient forgery : the Coptic Gospel of Thomas ; The forgery of an ancient discovery? : Morton Smith and the secret Gospel of Mark -- Part 2: Heresies and orthodoxies. At polar ends of the spectrum : early Christian Ebionites and Marcionites ; Christians "in the know" : the worlds of early Christian gnosticism ; On the road to Nicaea : the broad swath of proto-orthodox Christianity -- art 3: Winners and losers. The quest for orthodoxy ; The arsenal of the conflicts : polemical treatises and personal slurs ; Additional weapons in the polemical arsenal : forgeries and falsifications ; The invention of scripture : the formation of the proto-orthodox New Testament ; Winners, losers, and the question of tolerance. The early Christian Church was a chaos of contending beliefs. Some groups Christians claimed that there was not one God but two, or twelve, or thirty. Certain sects maintained that Jesus was human but not divine; others that he was divine but not human. Eherman offers an enlightening study of these early forms of Christianity, and how they came to be suppressed, reformed, or forgotten. 20190330. Apocryphal books (New Testament) Criticism, interpretation, etc. Heresies, Christian History Early church, ca. 30-600. Church history Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600. TXNES