What Is Gnosticism? A Video Introduction

Ehrman Blog Daily Post Podcasts

Mar 30 2021 | NaN

00:00 / NaN

Show Notes

I am in the midst of a thread describing different views of Christ found among early Christian groups of the second century: some Christians thought Jesus was human but not divine; others that he was divine but not human; others (the side that ended up winning the debates) that he was somehow both (that may seem common sense today, but it did not to many of Jesus' followers in the second century!). Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99spJLy1yPw Read by Sam Devis

Other Episodes

Episode 0

April 21, 2021 • NaN

How Could Christ Be Both God and a Human -- At Once? The Unusual View of Origen by Travis Proctor

Travis Proctor describes Origen's sophisticated (and eventually unorthodox) view of how Jesus could be both man and God. Read by John Paul Middlesworth

Episode

May 27, 2022 • 00:05:45

Fabulously Rich But Not Attached to the Lucre (?)

Dr. Ehrman points out ancient philosophers were concerned with the problem of wealth, but chiefly in the way it led to the unhappiness of...

Episode

November 27, 2024 • 00:08:36

Judaism 200 years before Jesus: The Maccabean Revolt

Bart shows how Hellenization led to the Maccabean Revolt. Read by John Paul Middlesworth.