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Gray distinguished professor at the university of north carolina at chapel hill, has provided students with great. The early christian church was a chaos of contending beliefs. A companion volume to lost christianities, this remarkable anthology of longlost christian writings that were never included in the new testaments includes fifteen additional gospels, thirteen epistles, five noncanonical acts of the apostles, apocalypes and secret books, and brief introductions to each. These are just a few of the many provocative questions you explore in lost christianities. The battles for scripture and the faiths we never knew bart d. Lost christianities, the battles for scripture and the faiths we never knew, bart d. Ehrman author, oxford university press, 2003, isbn. All of these groups insisted that they upheld the teachings of jesus and his apostles, and they. Uncommonly good collectible and rare books from uncommonly good booksellers.
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