The Lost and Hostile Gospels / An Essay on the Toledoth Jeschu, and the Petrine and Pauline Gospels of the First Three Centuries of Which Fragments Remain

The Lost and Hostile Gospels
An Essay
On the Toledoth Jeschu, and the Petrine and Pauline Gospels of the First Three Centuries of Which Fragments Remain.
Rev. S. Baring-Gould, M.A.
Author of “The Origin and Development of Religious Belief,” “Legendary Lives of the Old Testament Characters.” Etc.
Williams and Norgate
London, Edinburgh
1874


It is advisable, if not necessary, for me, by way of preface, to explain certain topics treated of in this book, which do not come under its title, and which, at first thought, may be taken to have but a remote connection with the ostensible subject of this treatise. These are:
1. The outbreak of Antinomianism which disfigured and distressed primitive Christianity.