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Jesus Wars
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Philip Jenkins,John Philip Jenkins |
Jesus Wars reveals how official, orthodox teaching about Jesus was the product of political maneuvers by a handful of key characters in the fifth century. Jenkins argues that were it not for these co… |
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Cities of God
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Rodney Stark |
How did the preaching of a peasant carpenter from Galilee spark a movement that would grow to include over two billion followers? Who listened to this "good news," and who ignored it? Where did Chris… |
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The darkening age
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Catherine Nixey |
Offers a history of the rise of Christianity in the classical world that focuses on its terrible cost, in terms of violence and dogmatic intolerance, that helped bring upon the dark ages.
"A bold ne… |
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Slandering the Jew
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Susanna Drake |
As Christian leaders in the first through fifth centuries embraced ascetic interpretations of the Bible and practices of sexual renunciation, sexual slander--such as the accusations Paul leveled agai… |
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Light from the Gentiles
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Abraham J. Malherbe |
Rather than viewing the Graeco-Roman world as the "background" against which early Christian texts should be read, Abraham J. Malherbe saw the ancient Mediterranean world as a rich ecology of diverse… |
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Deconstructing Jesus
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Robert M. Price |
From the Inside Flap
In *Deconstructing Jesus*, author Robert M. Price argues that liberal Protestant scholars who produce reconstructions of the "historical Jesus" are, as Albert Schweitzer point… |
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