Promise and Poison
Hagen, John van In Promise and Poison, psychologist and former Catholic priest John Van Hagen argues that the long-standing Jewish hope for the history-changing intervention of YHWH and the cursed, shameful crucifixion of Jesus were two elements from which emerged new moral communities whose members were soon called Christians.
While the history of Emerging Christianity appears fraught with battles about what to believe (orthodoxy), what often goes unnoticed...