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
What Is the Heresy of Orthodoxy?
The Bauer-Ehrman thesis contends that “orthodoxy” is not a first-century phenomenon but only a later concept that allowed the Roman church to squelch alternate versions of Christianity. We have seen that Bauer virtually ignores the New Testament evidence while believing to find evidence for early heresy and late orthodoxy in various urban centers of the… Read More