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by Leucius Charinus
Fri Mar 01, 2024 6:16 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: History of the challenge to apostolic authority (esp Peter)
Replies: 9
Views: 383

Re: History of the challenge to apostolic authority (esp Peter)

Looking for good sources on the history of challenges to apostolic authority, especially to the claim that Peter was "the first Pope". I'm not looking so much for the current state of scholarship, but rather a history of when these challenges began and how they developed over the years. I...
by Leucius Charinus
Fri Mar 01, 2024 5:57 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Thoughts on Martijn's book?
Replies: 3
Views: 257

Re: Thoughts on Martijn's book?

Are there any existing threads discussing Martijn's new book, Gospels, Epistles, Old Testament ? There appear to be two major threads: (1) Prima facie observations on Gospels, Epistles, Old Testament: The order of books according to Jesus Chri st https://earlywritings.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&am...
by Leucius Charinus
Thu Feb 22, 2024 4:46 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Marcionites thought Jesus wasn't 'Christos'?
Replies: 38
Views: 945

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...
by Leucius Charinus
Wed Feb 21, 2024 8:13 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Acts of Thomas: the Chrestos and the Agathos
Replies: 6
Views: 244

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...
by Leucius Charinus
Wed Feb 21, 2024 5:21 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: The only begotten from the Father
Replies: 11
Views: 379

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 "...
by Leucius Charinus
Tue Feb 20, 2024 4:21 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Persecution of heretics?
Replies: 8
Views: 270

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. (...
by Leucius Charinus
Mon Feb 19, 2024 9:12 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Possible Historical Allusions in the Nag Hammadi Library
Replies: 25
Views: 7183

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...
by Leucius Charinus
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...
by Leucius Charinus
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: 623

Re: Intrinsic stupidity of the common objection to Carrier's Outer Space theory

Giuseppe 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.
viewtopic.php?p=111418#p111418

That's an interesting "Outer Space" collection Giuseppe