After the New Testament: 100-300 C.E. - Ehrman, Bart D. (James A. Gray Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies, James A. Gray Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Durham, NC)

The remarkable diversity of Christianity during the formative years before the Council of Nicea has become a plain, even natural, "fact" for most ancient historians. Until After the New Testament, however, there had never been a sourcebook of primary texts that revealed the many varieties of Christian beliefs, practices, ethics, experiences, confrontations, and self-understandings.