Heretic Jesus Christ and the Other Sons of God

Catherine Nixey

eBook - 2024

"A brilliant book." —The Times, Best of the Year"Heretic tells a moreish intellectual story and shakes up your understanding of Western history. At the same time, somewhat improbably, it supplies at least one good joke per paragraph; you have to keep turning back to enjoy them again." ―The Economist, Best of the YearFrom a celebrated classicist and author of The Darkening Age ("[a] ballista-bolt of a book"—New York Times Book Review), a biography of the many, diverse variations of Jesus who thrived in early Christian traditions—and how they were lost until just one "true" Christ survived.Contrary to the teachings of the church today, in the first several centuries of Christianity's existe...nce, there was no consensus as to who Jesus was or why he had mattered. Instead, there were many different Christs. One had a twin brother and traveled to India; another consorted with dragons. One... more