Thanks for the link. I personally do not recommend Bart Ehram to any Orthodox Christian who is not academically grounded in their own Orthodoxy, and who has a superficial experience with Christian scholarship.
Bart Ehram is a scholar who cannot be taken at face value; many of his claims are a direct challenge to Orthodox Christianity, and are quite skeptical of the history of the Church. That is undoubtedly because he imports presuppositions that have no place within an Orthodox Christian context. If one lacks the capacity to be critical of scholarship, in order to separate the wheat from the chaff, then they should not take it upon themselves to engage with such works; it could be spiritually and mentally detrimental.
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Bart Ehram is a scholar who cannot be taken at face value; many of his claims are a direct challenge to Orthodox Christianity, and are quite skeptical of the history of the Church. That is undoubtedly because he imports presuppositions that have no place within an Orthodox Christian context. If one lacks the capacity to be critical of scholarship, in order to separate the wheat from the chaff, then they should not take it upon themselves to engage with such works; it could be spiritually and mentally detrimental.