The Many Faces of Christ: The Thousand-Year Story of the by Philip Jenkins
By Philip Jenkins
In The Many Faces of Christ, the well known non secular historian Philip Jenkins completely refutes our most simple assumptions concerning the misplaced Gospels. He unearths that dozens of other gospels not just survived the canonization approach yet in lots of instances remained influential texts in the legitimate Church. complete new gospels persisted to be written and accredited. For 1000 years, those unusual tales concerning the existence and dying of Jesus have been freely admitted onto church premises, authorized for liturgical analyzing, learn by way of traditional laypeople for guideline and delight, and brought up as authoritative by way of students and theologians.
The misplaced Gospels unfold everywhere, crossing geographic and spiritual borders. the traditional Gospel of Nicodemus penetrated into Southern and important Asia, whereas either Muslims and Jews wrote and propagated gospels in their personal. In Europe, in the meantime, it was once now not until eventually the Reformation and Counter-Reformation that the misplaced Gospels have been successfully pushed from church buildings. yet nonetheless, many survived, and a few proceed to form Christian perform and trust in our personal day.
Offering a revelatory new viewpoint at the formation of the biblical canon, the character of the early Church, and the evolution of Christianity, The Many Faces of Christ restores those misplaced Gospels to their valuable position in Christian history.
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