What is Ancient Christianity?
Christianity When It Worked : Third Edition
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This book may challenge some of your beliefs. The reader must keep in mind that it is in fact a history book and not a theology book. The author respects the reader’s beliefs but would prefer that the reader be aware of the historical background of each of those beliefs. The author is a professor of history not theology. The gradual education of the public on the subject of ancient Christianity is the desired goal of the author, as far different from a desire to convert anyone from any belief they may have.
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“I will build my church,” said Jesus, describing the holy, spiritual communion of believers He would establish.
Yet, in the centuries since Jesus’ first-century pronouncement, a tortured tangle of church schisms, splinters and synods, each promulgating their own versions of the Gospel, has emerged.
Whatever happened to the Church Jesus founded — the original Christianity that Jesus promised even the gates of hell could not prevail against?
In this unique volume, His Eminence Dr. Bernard Price, who is both a beloved archbishop of the Mar Thomas Orthodox Catholic Church as well as one of