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

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 w...

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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill.
c2008.
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Brill eBook titles 2008
Physical Description:1 online resource (400 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • 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
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index of Modern Authors
  • General Index.