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020			_a9781529040364 _qpaperback
020			_a1529040361 _qpaperback
020			_a9781529040357 _qhardback
020			_a1529040353 _qhardback
035			_a(OCoLC)on1273474291
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100	1		_aNixey, Catherine, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aHeresy : _bJesus Christ and the other sons of God / _cCatherine Nixey.
300			_axvii, 364 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations (chiefly colour) ; _c25 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 283-354) and index (pages 355-364).
505	0		_aAntichrist -- 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.
520			_a'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.
600	0	0	_aJesus Christ _vBiography.
600	0	0	_aJesus Christ _xPerson and offices.
650		0	_aIncarnation.
650		0	_aChristianity and culture _xHistory _yEarly church, ca. 30-600.
650		0	_aChurch history _yPrimitive and early church, ca. 30-600. _93014
650		6	_aIncarnation.
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