328 pages
English language
Published 2010 by HarperOne.
Jesus wars
how four patriarchs, three queens, and two emperors decided what Christians would believe for the next 1,500 years
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Jesus Wars reveals how official, orthodox teaching about Jesus was the product of political maneuvers by a handful of key characters in the fifth century. Jenkins argues that were it not for these controversies, the papacy as we know it would never have come into existence and that today's church could be teaching some-thing very different about Jesus. It is only an accident of history that one group of Roman emperors and militia-wielding bishops defeated another faction. --from publisher description.
Subjects
- Councils and synods
- Christian civilization
- Church history
- Person and offices
- History of doctrines
- Doctrinal Theology
- History