Jenkins, Philip,  1952-, <br/><br/>
Jesus wars :  how four patriarchs, three queens, and two emperors decided what Christians would believe for the next 1,500 years /  [print] 
Philip Jenkins. 
 - first edition. 
 - New York :  HarperOne,  (c)2010. 
 - xix, 328 pages :  maps ;  24 cm. 
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<br/><br/>The heart of the matter --  part 1. God and Caesar. The war of two natures --  Four horsemen: the Church's patriarchs --  Queens, generals, and emperors --  part 2. Councils of chaos. Not the Mother of God? -- The death of God --  Chalcedon --  part 3. A world to lose. How the Church lost half the world --  What was saved. 
<br/><br/> Jesus Wars reveals how official, orthodox teaching about Jesus was the product of political maneuvers by a handful of key characters in the fifth century. Jenkins argues that were it not for these controversies, the papacy as we know it would never have come into existence and that today's church could be teaching some-thing very different about Jesus. It is only an accident of history that one group of Roman emperors and militia-wielding bishops defeated another faction. --from publisher description. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780061768941 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2010281094 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Jesus Christ--History of doctrines.<br/>Jesus Christ--Person and offices.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Theology, Doctrinal--History--Early church, ca. 30-600.<br/>Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.<br/>Councils and synods.<br/>Christian civilization.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BT25.J52.J478 2010