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The discovery at Nag Hammadi exposed the lies of the Orthodox about the Gnostics, and yet biblical scholars reconstruct Marcion's theology based on the accusations of the Orthodox who were hostile to him. This is something I don't understand at all. How can so many people not notice the techniques ...

Asked the author the following question: I have one small question: Do you think it is possible that (saint) Anthony was an invention of "Athanasius"? I put "Athanasius "in inverted commas due to the comment of Erasmus "nothing is easier than to place any name you want on t...

short https://apcz.umk.pl/SPLP/article/download/SPLP.2018.019/24441/61350 A good summary. Leucius Charinus You are welcome. Marcion a is a disciple of Simon in Stromata 7.17. In other sources Marcion is a disciple of Cerdo who was a disciple of Simon. Just black PR. Can you elaborate on what you me...

https://www.academia.edu/86026669/Macrina_the_Younger_as_a_Substitute_for_Eustathius_the_Philosopher_Eustathius_of_Sebastea_Establishing_Peter_at_the_See_of_Sebastea Thanks JarekS. That's a very well researched book. The "editorial hands of Basil and Gregory" have long been identified as ...

In fact, I see the interactions on this forum as providing a hint to how the Church Fathers interacted with themselves and the heretical groups, except those interactions occurred over decades rather than weeks. These interactions occurred over centuries for those including citations about Marcion ...

Google Books has a table of contents and a few sample pages:

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Manuscripts of the "Fathers" are Secondary Sources not Primary Sources The writings of the church fathers are evidence of early Christianity but IMHO they certainly do not represent primary sources of evidence. These writings of the church fathers - in the form of physical artefactual man...

. "Arius' entire effort consisted precisely in acclimatizing Plotinic logic within biblical creationism." /// ( it sounds like Arianism considered the Son to be like a Platonic Demiurge ) /// I would contend the opposite to your quote, and more broadly, ie., that philosophies, both inside...

We have own opinions - someone once said - but not our own facts. And it is facts, is it not, that in the search for early christian origins, are in short supply. Yes MH that is certainly the case. "History is no epic, history is no novel, history is no propaganda because in these literary gen...

/// Arianism /// In the end, the difference between Arians and their detractors was really quite small, essentially just whether the Son had always existed eternally (as with the Father), or whether the Son was considered to have been begotten at a certain time (in the past) and whether the Son was...