TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nixey,Catherine
TI  - Heresy: Jesus Christ and the other sons of God 
SN  - 9781529040364
U1  - 232.9 23
KW  - Jesus Christ
KW  - Incarnation
KW  - Christianity and culture
KW  - History
KW  - Early church, ca. 30-600
KW  - Church history
KW  - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
N1  - 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
N2  - '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
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