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The Heresy of Orthodoxy: How Contemporary Culture’s Fascination with Diversity Has Reshaped Our Understanding of Early Christianity is unavailable, but you can change that!

Beginning with Walter Bauer in 1934, the denial of clear orthodoxy in early Christianity has shaped and largely defined modern New Testament criticism, recently given new life through the work of spokesmen like Bart Ehrman. Spreading from academia into mainstream media, the suggestion that diversity of doctrine in the early church led to many competing orthodoxies is indicative of today’s...

and receive with meekness the implanted word which is able to save your souls” (James 1:18, 21).46 Likewise, Paul speaks of the word shaping the church: “Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word” (Eph. 5:25–26).47 As John Webster notes, “The church exists in the space that is made by the Word …; it is brought into being and carried by the Word.”48 Moreover, the theme of divine house building continues
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