A companion to second-century Christian "heretics" /

'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...

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Other Authors: Marjanen, Antti, Luomanen, Petri, 1961-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005
Series:Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae ; v. 76.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of 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.