Restoring the Way of Yeshua the Nazarene

Restoring the Way explores a forgotten stream of early Christianity preserved in ancient sources such as the Clementine Homilies, the Didache, the Gospel of Thomas, and the Q source. Drawing on modern scholarship and early Jewish-Christian traditions, Christopher Sartain examines a movement that traces its roots to the Jerusalem Church led by James, the brother of Jesus.

These sources present a vision of Christianity centered on ethical living, obedience to divine law, vegetarianism, and the restoration of humanity’s relationship with creation. Preserved by communities such as the Ebionites, this tradition offers a strikingly different picture of early Christianity from the one that later came to dominate the church.

Restoring the Way invites readers to reconsider the foundations of the Christian tradition and to rediscover the ancient spiritual path once known simply as “the Way.”