# Heretic: Jesus Christ and the Other Sons of God - Hardcover

by **Catherine Nixey** (Author)

**"A brilliant book." --_The Times_, Best of the Year**

**"_Heretic_ tells a moreish intellectual story and shakes up your understanding of Western history. At the same time, somewhat improbably, it supplies at least one good joke per paragraph; you have to keep turning back to enjoy them again." ―_The Economist_, Best of the Year**

**From a celebrated classicist and author of _The Darkening Age_ ("\[a\] ballista-bolt of a book"--_New York Times Book Review_), a biography of the many, diverse variations of Jesus who thrived in early Christian traditions--and how they were lost until just one "true" Christ survived.**

Contrary to the teachings of the church today, in the first several centuries of Christianity's existence, there was no consensus as to who Jesus was or why he had mattered. Instead, there were many different Christs. One had a twin brother and traveled to India; another consorted with dragons. One particularly terrifying Christ scorned his parents and killed those who opposed him.

Moreover, in the early years of the first millennium there were many other saviors, many sons of gods who healed the sick and cured the lame. But as Christianity spread, they were pronounced unacceptable - even heretical - and they faded from view.

_Heretic_ unearths the different versions of Christ who existed in the minds of early Christians, and the process of evolution--and elimination--by which Jesus became the singular figure we know today.

"_Heretic_ has the mother lode of tales too hot for Christendom. Nixey has carefully wrung out a number of apocryphal texts for scandal." --_Harper's Magazine_

  
  
  

### Author Biography

CATHERINE NIXEY studied classics at Cambridge and taught the subject for several years before becoming a journalist at the _Times_ (UK), where she still works. Her mother was a nun, her father was a monk, and she was brought up Catholic. Author of _The Darkening Age_, she lives in London with her husband and their two children.  

**Number of Pages:** 384

**Dimensions:** 1.4 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** December 03, 2024

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