Heresy : Jesus Christ and the other sons of God / Catherine Nixey.
Description: xvii, 364 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 25 cmISBN: 9781529040364; 1529040361; 9781529040357; 1529040353Subject(s): Jesus Christ -- Biography | Jesus Christ -- Person and offices | Incarnation | Christianity and culture -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600 | Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 | IncarnationDDC classification: 232.9Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations |
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BT453. H854 The Cross in English life and devotion; | BT453. H855 The kingdom within you / | BT481. R449 The Resurrection: | BT520. N59 2024 Heresy : Jesus Christ and the other sons of God / | BT55. B87 2004 Faith and freedom : an interfaith perspective / | BT587. S4S73 2018 Nazah: White linen and the Blood of Sprinkling | BT602. B79 1994 Mary of Galilee / |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-354) and index (pages 355-364).
Antichrist -- To heal the blind and cure the lame -- The falsehoods of the magicians -- Serpent's blood and eye of ape -- The product of insanity -- What would Jesus do? -- On sardines and resurrections -- Fruit from a dunghill -- Go into all the world -- In Eden -- The birth of heresy -- On laws -- The breeds of heretical monsters -- Like grains of sand -- On the other origin of the world -- To unweave the rainbow -- St. Augustine and the spider -- To extirpate the adversaries of faith -- That no memorial be left -- Epilogue.
'In the beginning was the Word,' says the Gospel of John. This sentence - and the words of all four gospels - is central to the teachings of the Christian church and has shaped Western art, literature and language, and the Western mind. Yet in the years after the death of Christ there was not merely one word, nor any consensus as to who Jesus was or why he had mattered. There were many different Jesuses, among them the aggressive Jesus who scorned his parents and crippled those who opposed him, the Jesus who sold his twin into slavery and the Jesus who had someone crucified in his stead. Moreover, in the early years of the first millennium there were many other saviours, many sons of gods who healed the sick and cured the lame. But as Christianity spread, they were pronounced unacceptable - even heretical - and they faded from view. Now, in Heresy, Catherine Nixey tells their extraordinary story, one of contingency, chance and plurality. It is a story about what might have been.