Jesus wars
Subtitle: how four patriarchs, three queens, and two emperors decided what Christians would believe for the next 1,500 years
By: Philip Jenkins
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: HarperOne
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780061768941
Subjects: Councils and synods; Christian civilization; Church history; Person and offices; History of doctrines; Doctrinal Theology; History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-317) and index.
Table of contents: title: The heart of the matter; title: pt. 1. God and Caesar. The war of two natures; title: Four horsemen: the Church's patriarchs; title: Queens, generals, and emperors; title: pt. 2. Councils of chaos. Not the Mother of God?; title: The death of God; title: Chalcedon; title: pt. 3. A world to lose. How the Church lost half the world; title: What was saved.