You should read Bart's book The triumph of Christianity.... The cause for all these pagans leaving their polytheism for Christianity…
Is it correct that these arguments about what was canon and what should be discarded as heresy were argued among…
2/2: Further, I think the Pauline epistles bolster my argument, in that Phillippians 2:6-11 makes Christ equal with God, as…
The list of NT books was not settled as a matter of faith for all Christians by 367, even if…
1/2: Hi Professor Ehrman, before I get into my argument, I would like to note just how much I would…
Yes! My thought is that at least some of the details about Jesus in the gospels must come from Paul…
I really like this idea that Jesus' ministry begins with the Last Supper in Paul-- what an interesting observation!
AD was Dionysius Exiguus and BC was Bede of Northumbria.
It's been nearly 2 months, and this post about Dover Beach (which somehow I had never read) continues to reverberate…
I have long wondered how belief in miracles came to be such prevalent beliefs in the early church and then…