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Table of Contents:
  • Heresiology and normative Christianity
  • Irenaeus's refutation of the Gnostics
  • Philosophical arguments
  • Theological arguments
  • Socio-political motives
  • Excursus : Irenaeus and the Montanists
  • The Elenchos against all heresies
  • Hippolytus's three ways of refuting heresies
  • The basic disagreement with the Gnostics
  • Epiphanius's Panarion
  • Ephiphanius's objective and method
  • The Gnostic heresies
  • The core of the refutation
  • Christian polemics and the emergence of Orthodoxy.