BETWEEN DA VINCI AND ROME: THE NEW COVENANT AS A THEOLOGICAL NORM IN EARLY CHRISTIANITY

From: Trinity Journal | Date: October 1, 2006| Author: Saucy, Mark | Copyright information

In its understanding of early Christianity, evangelical theology occupies something of a middle ground between the poles of radical skepticism and the confident claim to direct succession from the original church. The skeptical view, now taking popular shape in the media buzz of "lost Christianities" and The Da Vinci Code, draws heavily from the theories of Walter Bauer and the new voice given to Gnosticism in the discovery of the Nag Hammadi library in the late 1950s. The claim from this sid...

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