Jesus wars, how four patriarchs, three queens, and two emperors decided what Christians would believe for the next 1,500 years, Philip Jenkins
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Jesus wars, how four patriarchs, three queens, and two emperors decided what Christians would believe for the next 1,500 years, Philip Jenkins
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-317) and index
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index present
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non fiction
Main title
Jesus wars
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bibliography
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419857423
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Philip Jenkins
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how four patriarchs, three queens, and two emperors decided what Christians would believe for the next 1,500 years
Summary
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
Table of contents
The heart of the matter -- pt. 1. God and Caesar. The war of two natures -- Four horsemen: the Church's patriarchs -- Queens, generals, and emperors -- pt. 2. Councils of chaos. Not the Mother of God? -- The death of God -- Chalcedon -- pt. 3. A world to lose. How the Church lost half the world -- What was saved
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