Paige’s Reviews > The Gospel of Mary of Magdala: Jesus and the First Woman Apostle > Status Update

Our picture will always be partial…[because of] independent development and differing situations, churches diverged widely in their perspectives on essential elements of Christian belief and practice. Early Christians proposed and experimented with competing visions of ideal community…all of the elements we might consider to be essential to define Christianity did not yet exist…History is written by the winners