A review by mrbozmarov
Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew by Bart D. Ehrman

3.0

Ehrman is a wonderful writer, and does a good job of expressing the beliefs and ideas present in the texts he is describing throughout. However, his own personal scholarly pre-commitments bias much of his analysis. This is a great read for understanding the history of those forms of Christianity that were deemed heretical by the early church. However, it is a biased and flawed read for understanding the history and theology of the Porto-orthodox. Ehrman attempts to do too much. Had he stuck with simply describing the “Lost Christianities” rather than also comparing them to his strawman version of the Proto-Orthodox, it would be a 5 star book.