1. Jesus - The Man Who Became God
Aired: Jul 25, 2014First, consider the huge historical significance of the Christian belief in J...
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In 24 provocative lectures, Professor Ehrman takes you deep into the process by which the divinity of Jesus was first conceived by his followers, demonstrating how this conception was refined over time to become the core of the Christian theology. A distinguished scholar of Christianity and New York Times best-selling author, Professor Ehrman develops the inquiry with meticulous research and in-depth analysis of texts. In these lectures, Ehrman reveals that the theological understanding of Je...
1. Jesus - The Man Who Became God
Aired: Jul 25, 2014First, consider the huge historical significance of the Christian belief in J...
2. Greco-Roman Gods Who Became Human
Aired: Jul 25, 2014In the ancient world, there were many accounts of “divine” mortals. Track thi...
3. Humans as Gods in the Greco-Roman World
Aired: Jul 25, 2014Delve further into the interface between the human and the divine in pagan cu...
4. Gods Who Were Human in Ancient Judaism
Aired: Jul 25, 2014Here, discover accounts of divine humans and other godlike beings within anci...
In ancient Judaism, beings other than the one true God could be considered to...
6. The Life and Teachings of Jesus
Aired: Jul 25, 2014In approaching the historical Jesus, consider why the New Testament Gospels a...
7. Did Jesus Think He Was God?
Aired: Jul 25, 2014This lecture explores what Jesus said about himself, as well as what he speci...
8. The Death of Jesus - Historical Certainties
Aired: Jul 25, 2014Regarding Jesus’s final days, review the events that we know about with relat...
9. Jesus's Death - What Historians Can't Know
Aired: Jul 25, 2014Look now at events surrounding Jesus’s death that we cannot know about with c...
10. The Resurrection - What Historians Can't Know
Aired: Jul 25, 2014Jesus’s resurrection stands as the basis for the entire Christian faith. But ...
11. What History Reveals About the Resurrection
Aired: Jul 25, 2014What was it that caused Jesus’s followers to believe he had been raised from ...
12. The Disciples' Visions of Jesus
Aired: Jul 25, 2014In exploring the first claims about Jesus’s resurrection, this lecture discus...
13. Jesus' Exaltation - Earliest Christian Views
Aired: Jul 25, 2014What did the earliest Christians believe about Jesus’s divinity? Delve into R...
14. The Backward Movement of Christology
Aired: Jul 25, 2014Over time, Christian thought pushed the origin of Jesus’s divinity further an...
15. Paul's View - Christ's Elevated Divinity
Aired: Jul 25, 2014Paul’s theology represents a transition between early conceptions of Christ a...
16. John's View - The World Made Human
Aired: Jul 25, 2014The Gospel of John differs significantly from the other three canonical Gospe...
17. Was Christ Human? The Docetic View
Aired: Jul 25, 2014In the second and third centuries, Christian groups followed radically differ...
18. The Divided Christ of the Separationists
Aired: Jul 25, 2014Among early Christian groups, the Gnostics demonstrate yet another view of th...
19. Christ's Dual Nature - Proto-Orthodoxy
Aired: Jul 25, 2014By the fourth century, the theological understanding known as “orthodoxy” bec...
The doctrine of the Trinity asserts that God, Christ, and the Holy Spirit are...
In the third century, sharp divisions existed between Christians, involving h...
22. The Conversion of Constantine
Aired: Jul 25, 2014The Christian conversion of the Roman emperor Constantine was a momentous tur...
Constantine called the famous Council of Nicea in 325 CE, to resolve the conf...
Conclude by considering the historical ramifications of the Nicean affirmatio...
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