Several commenters as well as other bloggers have pointed out that the diagram of early Christian diversity which I shared (created by Darrell Pursiful) does not do justice to the complexity of intersections and overlaps in early Christianity. And so I thought I would try to find an image or diagram that does better justice to the situation.
And so I have two questions for blog readers. First, which of the images below do you think does best justice to the complex diversity of earliest Christianity? Second, does any of you want to take the time to insert labels to indicate which strands are which?
I’m also interested in your thoughts on what the tea cup represents in that last one. Meanwhile, below is one last picture, about which you are free to debate whether the cat represents God or Satan – depending on whether you think tangled complicated diversity is a good thing…
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