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From the creative minds of the scholarly group behind the groundbreaking Jesus Seminar comes this provocative and eye-opening look at the roots of Christianity that offers a thoughtful reconsideration of the first two centuries of the Jesus movement, transforming our understanding of the religion and its early dissemination.
Christianity has…
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1 author picked After Jesus, Before Christianity as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
The best way to deconstruct something is write a meticulous history of how it was constructed in the first place, and then you get to see that it did not drop from the sky.
That goes for Christianity. Instead of the one true faith gradually falling into eternal place, the authors find a mosaic of “Jesus peoples,” not part of the official pre-history canonized in the fourth-century councils, but people who for the most part could not read or write but thrived on oral traditions, loosely connected communities, not a single movement but differing views of who Jesus was and…
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