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Article: Hidden Gospels: How the Search for Jesus Lost Its Way
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- Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society
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- September 1, 2003
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Hidden Gospels: How the Search for Jesus Lost Its Way. By Philip Jenkins. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001, 260 pp., $14.95 paper.
Recently some critics have expended a great deal of effort rewriting the story of Jesus and Christian origins based on the Nag Hammadi texts, NT Apocrypha, and other documents. According to their new version of Church history, Jesus inspired not one but many Christianities, each with its own doctrines and practices. According to the revision, powerful bishops in the second and third centuries AD began attacking their theological enemies, discrediting their opponents' gospels as heretical, and declaring their own texts to be canonical. In Hidden Gospels ...
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