The many faces of Christ the thousand-year story of the survival and influence of the lost gospels
"The standard account of early Christianity tells us that the first centuries after Jesus' death witnessed an efflorescence of Christian sects, each with its own gospel. We are taught that these alternative scriptures, which represented intoxicating, daring, and often bizarre ideas, were s...
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New York :
Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
[2015]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
