Jesus Wars: How Four Patriarchs, Three Queens, and Two Emperors Decided What Christians Would Believe for the Next 1,500 Years (2010 Jenkins), book

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Jesus Wars: How Four Patriarchs, Three Queens, and Two Emperors Decided What Christians Would Believe for the Next 1,500 Years (2010) is a book by Philip Jenkins.

Abstract

"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."--Publisher description.

"The Fifth-Century Political Battles That Forever Changed the Church... In this fascinating account of the surprisingly violent fifth-century church, PhilipJenkins describes how political maneuvers by a handful of powerful characters shaped Christian doctrine. Were it not for these battles, today’s church could beteaching something very different about the nature of Jesus, and the papacy as weknow it would never have come into existence. Jesus Wars reveals the profound implications of what amounts to an accident of history: that one faction ofRoman emperors and militia-wielding bishops defeated another."--Publisher description.

Editions

Published in New York, NY: HarperOne, 2010.

Contents

The heart of the matter

pt. 1. God and Caesar.

  • The war of two natures -- Four horsemen: the Church's patriarchs -- Queens, generals, and emperors

pt. 2. Councils of chaos.

  • Not the Mother of God? -- The death of God -- Chalcedon

pt. 3. A world to lose.

  • How the Church lost half the world -- What was saved

External links

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