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Lost christianities may not be an easy read it is far too densely packed with information for that but it is a userfriendly one which should appeal to those with some curiosity about the. The early christian church was a chaos of contending beliefs, according to bart ehrman, author of lost christianities. Ehrmans style is marked by the narrative thrust of a good story or even a sermon. In a book that took eight years to research and write, leading bible scholar bart d. Lost christianities and banned books of the bible unitarian. Bart ehrman argues in a pair of intriguing new books that the same could be said of the bibles new testament. The problem of suffering has haunted me for a very long time. Lost christianities is a course that considers the varieties of belief and practice in the early days of christianity, before the church had decided what was theologically acceptable and determined which books should be included in its canon of scripture.
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