The Christian Survivor - eBook

9789811032141
981-10-3214-9

The book puts the current interest in historical Jesus research into a proper historical context, highlighting Gnosticisms lasting influence on early Christianity and making the provocative claim that nearly all Christian Churches are in some way descended from Roman Christianity. Breaking with the accepted wisdom of Christianitys origins, the revised history it puts forward challenges the assumptions of Church and secular historians, biblical critics and general readers alike, with profound repercussions for scholarship, belief and practice.