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- Thu Feb 22, 2024 4:46 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Marcionites thought Jesus wasn't 'Christos'?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 938
Re: Marcionites thought Jesus wasn't 'Christos'?
The Church Fathers don't want their audience to take an interest in Marcionism or any of the sects they opposed. When you see how exaggerated their coverage was of the Arians it is not hard to see that the Marcionite account was likely garbled and exaggerated. How can we be sure that the Church Fat...
- Wed Feb 21, 2024 8:13 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Acts of Thomas: the Chrestos and the Agathos
- Replies: 6
- Views: 243
Re: Acts of Thomas: the Chrestos and the Agathos
Acts of Thomas and "The [Gnostic] Hymn of the Pearl" https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/actsthomas.html 200-225 CE - Early Christian Writings The following background is provided by Geoff Trowbridge's Introduction Aside from the section of the Acts of John known as the "Preaching...
- Wed Feb 21, 2024 5:21 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: The only begotten from the Father
- Replies: 11
- Views: 377
Re: The only begotten from the Father
there is no one or set 'Gnostic' concept of ceatiron Setting aside the claims of the heresiologists and examining the extant "Gnostic" manuscripts themselves (especially those in the NHL and those related) it seems reasonably clear (to me anyway) that the creation account in Plato's "...
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 4:21 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Persecution of heretics?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 259
Re: Persecution of heretics?
Persecution of heretics commenced when Nicene orthodoxy arose during the rule of Constantine. Some historians (e.g Robin Lane Fox) claim that the earliest precedents for torture of the philosophers and magistrates on account of their admitting religious fraud was at the earlier Council of Antioch. (...
- Mon Feb 19, 2024 9:12 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Possible Historical Allusions in the Nag Hammadi Library
- Replies: 25
- Views: 7177
Re: Possible Historical Allusions in the Nag Hammadi Library
The following data has been extracted from Hugo Lundhaug's " Textual Fluidity and Post-Nicene Rewriting in the Nag Hammadi Codices" in NAG HAMMADI À 70 ANS.QU’AVONS NOUS APPRIS? NAG HAMMADI AT 70:WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED? (Colloque international, Québec, Université Laval, 29-31 mai 2015 Lundau...
- Mon Feb 19, 2024 5:33 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Gnostic/heretical timeline?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 337
Re: Gnostic/heretical timeline?
The uncomfortable facts are that (a) the biggest "gnostic" names are pre-150, (b) the anti-heretical writings with specificity are post-150, and (c) there are no other sources with dates. It's not chronological, but here is an attempt at a list of names, with who mentions them: https://bi...
- Wed Feb 14, 2024 2:02 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Intrinsic stupidity of the common objection to Carrier's Outer Space theory
- Replies: 28
- Views: 621
Re: Intrinsic stupidity of the common objection to Carrier's Outer Space theory
viewtopic.php?p=111418#p111418Giuseppe wrote: ↑Wed Feb 14, 2024 12:56 am
... the point remains that the Outer Space theory is for the 90% the theory advanced by the past mythicists in the History.
That's an interesting "Outer Space" collection Giuseppe
- Wed Feb 14, 2024 1:43 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: The X-Files: Chrēstos / Christos / Χρειστος
- Replies: 448
- Views: 13622
Re: The X-Files: Chrestos / Christos / Χρειστος
Coptic Jesus the Chrest - Nomina Sacra in the Nag Hammadi Library 2.0 Martijn Linssen 2022, Thomas Miscellaneous, Part V https://www.academia.edu/84288595/Jesus_the_Chrest_Nomina_Sacra_in_the_Nag_Hammadi_Library Introduction An unusually concise and even brief publication, this is a single overview...
- Tue Feb 13, 2024 3:44 am
- Forum: Other Texts and History
- Topic: Examples of Pseudo-Isidore forged letters from Ante Nicene epoch?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 46250
Re: Examples of Pseudo-Isidore forged letters from Ante Nicene epoch?
It looks like the blog of Eric Knibbs, Assistant Professor of History at Williams College in Williamstown, MA., may be back online: http://pseudoisidore.blogspot.com/2013/08/towards-theory-of-pseudo-isidore-part-i.html "I work on the Pseudo-Isidorian Forgeries" From the blog: Now that we'v...
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 4:34 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: The X-Files: Chrēstos / Christos / Χρειστος
- Replies: 448
- Views: 13622
Re: The X-Files: Chrēstos / Christos / Χρειστος
Another related abbreviation to be included could be the Chi Rho That is true. Thank you for these references. Chi Rho ☧ You're welcome. Here's the link and stats for the Chi Rho ☧ in the Packham data https://inscriptions.packhum.org/search?patt=%F0%90%86%A0 897 matches in 650 texts. The "Conc...