The Heresy of Orthodoxy (Part 3) In this third installment of our series on The Heresy of Orthodoxy, Dr. Michael Kruger and I discuss one of the greatest weaknesses to Bauer’s thesis—the fact that he never deals with evidence from the first century. You can also follow previous installments to our series: Part 1 and… Read More
The Heresy of Orthodoxy: An Overview of the Bauer Thesis
An Overview of the Bauer Thesis This is the second part of our series on The Heresy of Orthodoxy with Dr. Michael Kruger. In this video, we delve into the Bauer Thesis in greater detail. You can find the first part of our conversation here. How Diverse was Early Christianity? MK: Andreas, our book was… Read More
The Heresy of Orthodoxy: Why a Book on Orthodoxy and Heresy in Early Christianity?
The Bauer Thesis Recently, Dr. Michael Kruger and I filmed a series of videos on our book, The Heresy of Orthodoxy: How Contemporary Culture’s Fascination with Diversity Has Reshaped Our Understanding of Early Christianity. In these videos, we discuss the Bauer thesis, named after the German scholar Walter Bauer. Beginning with Bauer in 1934, the denial… Read More
Did the Early Christians Invent the Resurrection of Jesus?
One of the most important historical questions related to Jesus is how a tiny offshoot of Judaism went on to change the world. One of the most outspoken detractors of Jesus’ deity and the truthfulness of Christianity, Bart Ehrman, writes, “But then something else happened. Some of [Jesus’ followers] began to say that God had… Read More
How Diverse Was Early Christianity?
In recent years, scholars have increasingly proposed that early Christianity was not unified but diverse. Is this borne out by historical fact? How diverse was early Christianity? And if diverse, did such diversity extend only to the personal style and theological emphasis of a given New Testament writer or is it possible to speak of doctrinal… Read More