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Orthodoxy and heresy in early Christian contexts : reconsidering the Bauer Thesis /

Eighty years ago, Walter Bauer promulgated a bold and provocative thesis about early Christianity. He argued that many forms of Christianity started the race, but one competitor pushed aside the others, until this powerful 'orthodox' version won the day. The victors re-wrote history, margi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hartog, Paul, 1970- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, United Kingdom : James Clarke & Co., 2015.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Paul A. Hartog
  • The Bauer thesis: an overview / Rodney J. Decker
  • Walter Bauer and the Apostolic Fathers / Paul A. Hartog
  • Post-Bauer scholarship on Gnosticism (s): the current state of our "knowledge" / Carl B. Smith
  • Baur to Bauer and beyond: early Jewish Christianity and modern scholarship / William Varner
  • "Orthodoxy," "Heresy," and complexity: Montanism as a case study / Rex D. Butler
  • Apostolic tradition and the rule of faith in light of the Bauer thesis / Bryan M. Litfin
  • Bauer's forgotten region: North African Christianity / David C. Alexander and Edward L. Smither
  • Patristic heresiology: the difficulties of reliability and legitimacy / W. Brian Shelton
  • Bauer's early Christian Rome and the development of "Orthodoxy" / Glen L. Thompson
  • From Völker to this volume: a trajectory of critiques and a final reflection / Paul A. Hartog.