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Cargando... Heretics: The Other Side of Early Christianitypor Gerd Lüdemann
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Lüdemann's critical examination of "holy scripture and its authority" is a meticulous historical investigation of early Christianity that seeks "to direct attention once again to Jesus." General readers may find the extensive documentation intimidating; but the argument is accessible, and the documentation is tucked away in notes that can be left to scholars. Beginning with Lessing's insight that the New Testament was a work of the Catholic church and his claim that- because "the appeal to the writings of the New Testament as intrinsically binding on the faith is a dogma of the Catholic church"-we may draw our own conclusions about Jesus, L¸demann sets about to welcome the heretics of primitive Christianity back into the Christian community as valuable human witnesses to the human Jesus. A heretic is one who makes a choice, and L¸demann notes that this was done on all sides in the processes of canonization by which the New Testament was formed, just as it must be done by contemporary Christians who would draw conclusions for the present from historical reconstructions. No doubt, some readers will be put off by Lüdemann's assertion that the Bible is the word of human beings, not the Word of God. But even those who are put off may find Lüdemann's willingness to say "I" refreshing and his historical reconstruction provocative. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
According to the commonly held view, early Christianity was a time of great harmony, and heresy emerged only at a later stage. To the contrary, Gerd Ludemann argues that the time from the first Christian communities to the end of the second century was defined by struggle by various groups for doctrinal authority. Drawing on a wealth of data, he asserts that the losers in this struggle actually represented Christianity in its more authentic, original form. Orthodoxy has been defined by the victors in this struggle and it is they who subsequently silenced alternative views and labeled them heretical. Ludemann's findings are important as well as liberating for the understanding of both Christianity and the Bible. Readers will gain a new understanding of Jesus and the early church from this compelling and controversial book. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)273.1Religions History, geographic treatment, biography of Christianity Doctrinal controversies & heresies Gnostic (First 3 centuries)Clasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:
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