A companion to second-century Christian "heretics" / edited by Antti Marjanen & Petri Luomanen.

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TextSeries: Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae ; v. 76.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 385 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9004144641
9789004144644
9781429453509
1429453508
143370580X
9781433705809
9789047407867
9047407865

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Companion to second-century Christian "heretics".; Online version:: Companion to second-century Christian "heretics".DDC classification:

273/.1 22

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BT1319 .C65 2005eb

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11.51

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Contents:

Basilides the Gnostic / Birger A. Pearson -- Sethianism / Michael A. Williams -- The school of Valentinus / Ismo Dunderberg -- Marcion / Heikki Räisänen -- Tatian the Assyrian / William L. Petersen -- Bardaisan of Edessa / Nicola Denzey -- Montanism : egalitarian ecstatic "new prophecy" / Antti Marjanen -- Cerinthus / Matti Myllykoski -- Ebionites / Sakari Häkkinen -- Nazarenes / Petri Luomanen -- Jewish Christianity of the Pseudo-Clementines / F. Stanley Jones -- Elchasaites and their book / Gerard P. Luttikhuizen.

Summary: 'The book illuminates "the other side" of early Christianity by examining thinkers and movements that were embraced by many second-century religious seekers as legitimate forms of Christianity, but which are now largely forgotten, or are known only from the characteristics attributed to them in the writings of their main adversaries. The collection deals with the following teachers and movements: Basilides, Sethianism, Valentinus' school, Marcion, Tatian, Bardaisan, Montanists, Cerinthus, Ebionites, Nazarenes, Jewish-Christianity of the Pseudo-Clementines, and Elchasites. Where appro

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'The book illuminates "the other side" of early Christianity by examining thinkers and movements that were embraced by many second-century religious seekers as legitimate forms of Christianity, but which are now largely forgotten, or are known only from the characteristics attributed to them in the writings of their main adversaries. The collection deals with the following teachers and movements: Basilides, Sethianism, Valentinus' school, Marcion, Tatian, Bardaisan, Montanists, Cerinthus, Ebionites, Nazarenes, Jewish-Christianity of the Pseudo-Clementines, and Elchasites. Where appro

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