McDowell’s Evidence that Demands a Verdict also has much from the early fathers but it was written before current claims about alternative Christianities. Bock and published by Thomas Nelson (HCC). R Price’s Searching for the Original Bible, too that I’m also currently reading. The Missing Gospels: Unearthing the Truth Behind Alternative Christianities is written by Darrell L. Bock seeks to show the origin and nature of the gnostic materials and how the Bible philosophy is not at all like that, but better. The so called new materials took further seeking out. I enjoyed finding many of these traditional texts also on the CCEL site in the Anti-Nicene Fathers of Philip Schaff, and reading the contexts. He proceeds by examining a large sampling of the new materials, especially those like the Gospel of Thomas found at Nag Hammadi and a sampling of the Bible early church fathers like Ireneaus, Justin Martyr and Clement, etc. He counters ideas of the ‘new school’ of Walter Bauer, and modern popular writings of Bart Ehrman and Dan Brown, etc. Bock seeks to show the weakness of the popular ideas that other Christian faiths developed parallel to orthodoxy but simply orthodoxy won out! Tho a bit technical and it takes an effort to read and learn the issues, it is worthwhile.
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