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the thousand-year story of the survival and influence of the lost gospels

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An edition of The many faces of Christ (2015)

The many faces of Christ

the thousand-year story of the survival and influence of the lost gospels

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"In The Many Faces of Christ religious historian Philip Jenkins refutes our most basic assumptions about the Lost Gospels and the history of Christianity. He reveals that hundreds of alternative gospels were never lost, but survived and in many cases remained influential texts, both outside and within the official Church. We are taught that these alternative scriptures--such as the Gospels of Thomas, Mary, or Judas--represented intoxicating, daring and often bizarre ideas that were wholly suppressed by the Church in the fourth and fifth centuries. In bringing order to the tumult, the Church canonized only four gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. The rest, according to this standard account, were lost, destroyed, or hidden. But more than a thousand years after Emperor Constantine converted to Christianity and made his Roman Empire do the same, the Christian world retained a much broader range of scriptures than would be imaginable today"--

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English
Pages
326

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Table of Contents

Gospel truths : the myth of the lost gospels
Christ's many faces : the survival of the old gospels in a wider Christian world
The isles of the West : how Irish and British churches kept ancient Christian cultures alive
Old gospels never die : ancient gospels that gave the medieval church its best-known images of Christ
Two Marys : how alternative gospels continued to present the feminine face of God
The new Old Testament : tales of patriarchs and prophets that became Christian gospels
Out of the past : the heretical sects that preserved ancient alternative scriptures for a thousand years
Beyond the horizon : Muslim and Jewish versions of the earliest Christian traditions
After darkness, light : how the Reformation era drove the ancient gospels from the churches
Scriptures unlimited? : the place of alternative scriptures in Christianity.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-307) and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
229/.8
Library of Congress
BS2851 .J464 2015, BS2851.J464 2015

The Physical Object

Pagination
ix, 326 pages
Number of pages
326

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27190446M
Internet Archive
manyfacesofchris0000jenk
ISBN 10
0465066925
ISBN 13
9780465066926
LCCN
2015028753
OCLC/WorldCat
914296449

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