Review of Vinzent, Resetting the origins of Christianity

BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Resetting the origins of Christianity: a new theory of sources and beginnings.

Markus Vinzent, Resetting the origins of Christianity: a new theory of sources and beginnings. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 350. ISBN 9781009290487

Review by
Peter Gemeinhardt, University of Göttingen. peter.gemeinhardt@theologie.uni-goettingen.de

... In any case, it is time to seriously discuss his undertaking of “resetting the origins” and to see whether this will necessitate a paradigm shift or – which is more modest but perhaps helpful – a thoroughly revised assessment of what we thought we already knew.

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