By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2023-05-30T17:13:11-04:00October 26th, 2022|Tags: Ally Kateusz, Early Jesus Followers, Gospel of Mary, Mary Magdalene|
Even as far back as the writing of the Gospel of Mary in the second century, two of Mary’s fellow disciples had a hard time dealing with her leadership. Presenters: Dr. Shirley Paulson and Dr. Ally Kateusz (with host Hilary Barner)
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2023-04-18T19:03:38-04:00August 21st, 2022|Tags: Early Christian Communities, Early Church, Early Jesus Followers, Nag Hammadi|
This course, After Jesus Before Christianity: New Discoveries, is presented by Dr. Shirley Paulson and Dr. Deborah N. Saxon. The course is designed to help you gain a better understanding of early Jesus people by examining information from a wide variety of sources, including the book After Jesus Before Christianity.
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2022-07-18T03:51:06-04:00April 25th, 2022|Tags: Early Jesus Followers, Resurrection|
Following up on the March 28, 2022, Bible and Beyond Discussion, our conversation on April 25 continued a study of articulations of Christ peoples’ consideration and elaboration of spiritual resurrection in the first two hundred years CE. Whereas the March study concentrated on the ways Paul’s letters and the Nag Hammadi “Treatise” laid out spiritual resurrection, in this discussion we expanded on notions of spiritual resurrection in passages about empty tombs and visions. Presenter: Dr. Hal Taussig (with host Dr. Shirley Paulson)
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2022-07-18T19:33:21-04:00March 28th, 2022|Tags: Early Jesus Followers, Resurrection|
In the first two centuries, the early Jesus people understand resurrection of the body as a spiritual event -- ‘spiritual bodies’ is a key phrase. Presenter: Dr. Hal Taussig (with host Shirley Paulson, PhD)
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2022-07-18T19:40:34-04:00February 28th, 2022|Tags: Early Christian Communities, Early Jesus Followers|
This is the last of the four Bible and Beyond Discussion studies of the HarperOne book After Jesus Before Christianity. This discussion focuses on the 20th chapter of the book, appropriately called “Conclusion.” Presenter: Dr. Hal Taussig (with host Shirley Paulson, PhD)
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2022-07-19T00:08:11-04:00January 24th, 2022|Tags: Early Christian Communities, Early Jesus Followers|
For the most part, both biblical scholars and most churches have not paid attention to the almost complete lack of the word “Christian” and the complete lack of the word “Christianity” in the Bible. Presenter: Dr. Hal Taussig (with host Shirley Paulson, PhD)
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2022-07-18T23:58:34-04:00December 27th, 2021|Tags: Biblical Violence, Early Christian Communities, Early Jesus Followers|
This second session examines examines the collision of violence by the Roman Empire and confidence/trust/vulnerability of the many Jesus groups of the first two centuries. Presenter: Dr. Hal Taussig (with host Shirley Paulson, PhD)
By Dr. Hal Taussig|2021-12-23T05:22:18-05:00December 22nd, 2021|Tags: Bible, Early Christian Communities, Early Jesus Followers, Jesus, Paul|
The book challenges the general public, many churches, and most scholars to re-consider how to think about Jesus and these hundreds of years before there were ‘Christians.’
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2022-07-19T00:15:20-04:00November 22nd, 2021|Tags: Early Christian Communities, Early Jesus Followers|
This first of a four-part series about the book, After Jesus Before Christianity, begins with an overview framing six new discoveries of the past ten years concerning the first two centuries after Jesus. Presenter: Dr. Hal Taussig (with host Shirley Paulson, PhD)
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2023-04-18T19:07:03-04:00November 10th, 2021|Tags: Early Christian Communities, Early Jesus Followers, Letter of Peter to Philip, Violence|
Second in the Nag Hammadi Series Presenters Dr. Shirley Paulson and her co-instructor, Dr. Hal Taussig, guide you through some surprising new ideas about Jesus in this little-known text, the Letter of Peter to Philip. Jesus gives his ambassadors (i.e. disciples) instructions in six steps that lead his followers (from long ago and now) to experience peace, joy, and even healing in the face of violence.
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2021-09-08T00:40:30-04:00September 8th, 2021|Tags: Early Jesus Followers, Healing, Jesus, The Greek Magical Papyri|
The lessons he taught concerning the realm of God may well have touched the soul and caused the kind of awakening that actually healed the sick.
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2022-12-22T09:52:37-05:00July 26th, 2021|Tags: Divine Feminine, Early Jesus Followers, Eve, Norea|
Unlike in later and present Christianity, Eve was often known especially among both the Christ People and the people of Israel as the mother of humanity, and was often in this dimension a powerful salvific figure for all time. Presenter: Dr. Hal Taussig (with host Shirley Paulson, PhD)
