I cristianesimi perduti. Apocrifi, sette ed eretici nella battaglia per le sacre scritture

O istorie alternativă a creștinismului, construită pe ceea ce ar fi putut să fie și n-a fost. O astfel de lucrare trezește întotdeauna interesul spiritelor îndrăznețe. Ne place să visăm, să construim ipoteze elucubrante, despre care știm că nu pot fi justificate în nici un fel. Așadar, cartea lui Eh Leggi tutto

Most people who self-identify as “bible believing Christians” operate under a certain understanding of the history of Christianity. Whether their view of this history is learned or assumed, it usually goes something like this in a nutshell: "The canonized scripture is the inerrant word of God. The N Leggi tutto

Le religioni rivelate. Uno legge un saggio come questo, dottissimo e ben scritto e non puo' fare a meno di stupirsi. Senza voler offendere nessuno ma, quando si viene a sapere di quale sia stata la genesi (per certi versi grottesca) dei testi considerati sacri da milairdi di persone, non si puo' che Leggi tutto

When you search for this book on Goodreads, the first two results are Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol,' and Milton's 'Paradise Lost.' Not sure what to make of that. As for Ehrman's book, I do know what to make of it. Ehrman is a solid scholar who seems to have decided that he needs that cash money baby, Leggi tutto

Of the four main strands of Christianity prevalent before the fourth century, only one had what it took to emerge as the religion we know today. Theology students are no doubt familiar with this history, but seldom does it make its way past the pulpit. So as a general reader, I found this survey of

A fascinating tale of the different early Christianities that did not catch on. Had one of them done so, the world may have looked completely different since it’s unlikely that any of them would have become the official religion of Rome. There is also an interesting discussion on what gospels went i Leggi tutto

Bart Ehrman's books are all quite readable and understandable to any acquainted with the texts of the various Christian bibles. This volume, companion to his 'Lost Scriptures', considers, broadly, the formation of the various Christian canons in the fourth and fifth centuries and what was lost, text Leggi tutto

This is a book about how one early Christian group established itself as the dominant force in the early church and how they determined what Christians believe as sacred Scripture. Why did the Ebionites, Marcionites, and the Gnostic sects become heresies and fall by the wayside and who were the hist Leggi tutto