Guilt by Association
Heresy Catalogues in Early Christianity
Few literary innovations have exercised as much influence upon Christian attitudes toward internal diversity as has the practice of organizing the names and alleged misdeeds of rival teachers into heresy catalogues. For two millennia, followers of Jesus have employed the heresy catalogue as a powerful weapon in internal struggles for legitimacy, authority, and supremacy. Despite its enduring popularity and influence within the Christian tradition, the heresy catalogue remains an underappreciated polemical genre among historians of early Christianity.Guilt by Association explores the creation, publication, and circulation of heresy catalogues…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-938679-6
- EAN: 9780199386796
- Produktnummer: 17039264
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 192 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 3'651 KB
Über den Autor
Geoffrey Smith is Nease Fellow and Lecturer, Department of Religious Studies, The University of Texas at Austin. His research interests include the apostle Paul, Gospels, New Testament textual criticism, papyrology and manuscript studies, patristics, Valentinianism, and orthodoxy and heresy in early Christianity.
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