Bart Ehrman, the James A. Gray Professor and chair of the Department
of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has
recently published an interesting, provocative book titled Lost Christianities:
The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew.1 Ehrman’s title is
thought-provoking. There are clearly, in Ehrman’s thinking, “Christianities”
that have been lost as what we know as “orthodox” Christianity emerged as
the dominant group and purposely suppressed other “Christian” interpretations
of the gospel.
