The many -sided Christ. The thousand -year history of secret gospels

For centuries, since the founding of Christianity, there were different traditions of faith. These traditions were in a state of continuous change, different schools developed in them with their own authoritative scriptures. Christians used and created sacred texts in large numbers and called them gospels. Today, these alternative scriptures amaze with their original, and sometimes shocking, ideas. The texts that were outside the official ideology tried to ban and destroy, while others to save and save. What was the fate of the forbidden fruits of faith? What secrets of real Christianity keep apocrypha? Do they continue to compete with the canonical books of the Church today? Philip Jenkins invites the reader to go beyond traditional ideas and learn more about how Jesus followers lived and at different times in different parts of the world, and how apocryphal texts influenced the world culture from the creators of the great classical works of art to enterprising authors of modern scandalous scandalous scandalous scandalous scandal Romanov