This material has been made available to the Spiritual Growth Class at Bellville United Methodist Church, to aid us in the study of the video series "Lost Christianities". I have set this page up to make it easier for us to access the Lecture Outlines.

Lecture 1. The Diversity of Early Christianity
Lecture 2. Christians Who Would Be Jews
Lecture 3. Christians Who Refuse to Be Jews
Lecture 4. Early Gnostic Christianity -- Our Sources
Lecture 5. Early Gnostic Christianity -- An Overview
Lecture 6. The Gnostic Gospel of Truth
Lecture 7. Gnostics Explain Themselves

Lecture 8. The Coptic Gospel of Thomas
Lecture 9. Thomas' Gnostic Teachings
Lecture 10. Infancy Gospels
Lecture 11. The Gospel of Peter
Lecture 12. The Secret Gospel of Mark     
Lecture 13. The Acts of John     
Lecture 14. The Acts of Thomas

Lecture 15. The Acts of Paul and Thecla
Lecture 16. Forgeries in the Name of Paul
Lecture 17. The Epistle of Barnabas 
Lecture 18. The Apocalypse of Peter
Lecture 19. The Rise of Early Christian Orthodoxy
Lecture 20. Beginnings of the Canon    
Lecture 21. Formation of the New Testament Canon
Lecture 22. Interpretation of Scripture
Lecture 23. Orthodox Corruption of Scripture
Lecture 24. Early Christian Creeds