TY - BOOK ID - 15883858 TI - The Christian Survivor : How Roman Christianity Defeated Its Early Competitors PY - 2017 SN - 9811032149 9811032130 PB - Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Religion. KW - Bible KW - Ethnology. KW - Europe KW - Religious Studies. KW - Biblical Studies. KW - Cultural Anthropology. KW - History of Ancient Europe. KW - Theology. KW - History—To 476. KW - Christianity. KW - Religionsgeschichtliche Schule. KW - Church history. KW - Christianity KW - Ecclesiastical history KW - History, Church KW - History, Ecclesiastical KW - History of religions school KW - History KW - Religions KW - Church history KW - Origin KW - Cultural anthropology KW - Ethnography KW - Races of man KW - Social anthropology KW - Anthropology KW - Human beings KW - Bible-Theology. KW - Europe-History-To 476. KW - Bible—Theology. KW - Europe—History—To 476. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:15883858 AB - The book puts the current interest in historical Jesus research into a proper historical context, highlighting Gnosticism’s lasting influence on early Christianity and making the provocative claim that nearly all Christian Churches are in some way descended from Roman Christianity. Breaking with the accepted wisdom of Christianity’s origins, the revised history it puts forward challenges the assumptions of Church and secular historians, biblical critics and general readers alike, with profound repercussions for scholarship, belief and practice. . ER -