A Companion To Secondcentury Christian Heretics Antti Marjanen by Antti Marjanen, Petri Luomanen 9789004144644, 9004144641 instant download after payment.

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.