What Is The Real Story behind Christianity's Formative Years? 



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Were the early Christians really hunted 

 down and martyred, forced to hide 

 in the catacombs of Rome? Did the 

 ancient Jews of Jesus' time always believe in a 

 single, all-powerful God? How did breaking 

 away from their Jewish roots make Christians 

 more vulnerable in the Roman world? What 

 were the actual roots of what we now think of 

 as the distinctively Christian liturgical practices 

 of baptism and the Eucharist? Most of us have 

 grown up believing we know the answers to 

 those questions — but do we? 



As this course shows, the answers are, in 

 fact, quite surprising. The traditional form of 

 Christianity we know today — with its beliefs, 

 practices, canon of sacred Scripture, even its 

 own stated history — emerged only after many 

 years of transition and conflict, not only with 

 Judaism, but with what can now only be called 

 "lost Christianities." 



From the Religion of Jesus ... 

 to a Religion about Jesus 



From Jesus to Constantine: A History 

 of Early Christianity will take you back to 

 Christianity's first three centuries to explain 

 its transition from the religion of Jesus to a 

 religion about Jesus. 



It will introduce you to those lost 

 Christianities and their sacred writings, many of 

 which were originally proscribed or destroyed, 

 only to be rediscovered in modern times. And 

 it will reveal how a single group from among 

 many won the struggle for dominance, allow- 

 ing it to establish the beliefs central to the 

 faith, rewrite the history of Christianity's inter- 

 nal conflicts, and produce a canon of sacred 

 texts — the New Testament — that supported 

 its own views. 



This course is an engaging experience that 

 will increase your understanding of Christianity 

 today. It offers you a scholar's perspective on 

 the origins of what Professor Bart D. Ehrman 

 puts forth as the most important institution in 

 Western civilization. 



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Dr. Bart D. Ehrman is the James A. Gray 

 Professor and Chair of the Department of 

 Religion at The University or North Carolina 

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 books, he has received many awards and 

 prizes during his tenure at UNC including the 

 Bowman and Gordon Gray Award for excel- 

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Lecture Titles 



1. The Birth of Christianity 



2. The Religious World of 

 Early Christianity 



3. The Historical Jesus 



4. Oral and Written Traditions about Jesus 



5. The Apostle Paul 



6. The Beginning of 

 Jewish-Christian Relations 



7. The Anti-Jewish Use of the 

 Old Testament 



8. The Rise of Christian Anti-Judaism 



9. The Early Christian Mission 



10. The Christianization of the 

 Roman Empire 



1 1. The Early Persecutions of the State 



12. The Causes of Christian Persecution 



13. Christian Reactions to Persecution 



14. The Early Christian Apologists 



1 5. The Diversity of Early 

 Christian Communities 



16. Christianities of the Second Century 



17. The Role of Pseudepigrapha 



18. The Victory of the Proto-Orthodox 



19. The New Testament Canon 



20. The Development of Church Offices 



21. The Rise of Christian Liturgy 



22. The Beginnings of Normative Theology 



23. The Doctrine of the Trinity 



24. Christianity and the Conquest of Empire 



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