A companion to second-century Christian "heretics"
By: edited by Antti Marjanen and Petri Luomanen.
Contributors: Marjanen, Antti.; Luomanen, Petri, 1961-
Publisher: Brill; Brill Academic Pub
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 385
ISBN-13: 9789004170384
Subjects: Heresies, Christian; Heretics, Christian -- Biography; Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
Genres: Biography.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.