Heresy

Resumen del libro

In the beginning was the Word,' says the Gospel of John. This sentence and the words of all four gospels is central to the teachings of the Christian Church and has shaped Western art, literature and language, and the Western mind.Yet in the years after the death of Christ there was not merely one word, nor any consensus as to who Jesus was or why he had mattered. There were many different Jesuses, among them the aggressive Jesus who scorned his parents and crippled those who opposed him, the Jesus who sold his twin into slavery and the Jesus who had someone crucified in his stead.Moreover, in the early years of the first millennium there were many other saviours, many sons of gods who healed the sick and cured the lame. But as Christianity spread, they were pronounced unacceptable even heretical and they faded from view. Now, in Heresy, Catherine Nixey tells their extraordinary story, one of contingency, chance and plurality. It is a story about what might have been.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Catherine Nixeyx{0026}lt;/B estudió Historia Clásica en Cambridge y se dedicó durante muchos años a la docencia, antes de inclinarse por el periodismo. Ha publicado sus reportajes en The Times, The Financial Times y The New York Times y en la actualidad es redactora de The Economist. Su primer libro, La edad de la penumbra (Taurus, 2018), ganó el Jerwood Award de la Royal Society of Literature y el Morris D. Forkosch Book Prize al mejor libro sobre humanidades del año 2018.x{0026}lt;/P