A Companion to Second-Century Christian ‘Heretics’
Petri Luomanen & Antti Marjanen (eds), Leiden: Brill, 2008
Description
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 appropriate, the authors have included an overview of the life and significant publications of the “heretics,” along with a description of their theologies and movements. Therefore, this volume can serve as a handbook of the second-century “heretics” and their “heresies.” Since all the chapters have been written by specialists who wrestle daily with their research themes, the contributions also offer new perspectives and insights stimulating further discussion on this fascinating—but often neglected—side of early Christianity.
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Table of contents
Basilides the Gnostic
Author: Birger A. Pearson
Pages: 1–31
Sethianism
Author: Michael A. Williams
Pages: 32–63
The School of Valentinus
Author: Ismo Dunderberg
Pages: 64–99
Marcion
Author: Heikki Räisänen
Pages: 100–124
Tatian the Assyrian
Author: William L. Petersen
Pages: 125–158
Bardaisan of Edessa
Author: Nicola Denzey
Pages: 159–184
Montanism: Egalitarian Ecstatic “New Prophecy”
Author: Antti Marjanen
Pages: 185–212
Cerinthus
Author: Matti Myllykoski
Pages: 213–246
Ebionites
Author: Sakari Häkkinen
Pages: 247–278
Nazarenes
Author: Petri Luomanen
Pages: 279–314
Jewish Christianity of the Pseudo-Clementines
Author: F. Stanley Jones
Pages: 315–334
Elchasaites and Their Book
Author: Gerard P. Luttikhuizen
Pages: 335–364
Notes on Contributors
Editors: Antti Marjanen and Petri Luomanen
Pages: 365–367
Index of Modern Authors
Editors: Antti Marjanen and Petri Luomanen
Pages: 369–373
General Index
Editors: Antti Marjanen and Petri Luomanen
Pages: 374–385
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