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1 online resource |
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""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1. Doxography, Pseudo-Pauline Literature, and the Christian Heresy Catalogue""; ""The Early Christian Heresy Catalogue""; ""Greek Doxography and the Origins of the Heresy Catalogue""; ""The Pseudepigraphic Pauline Epistle""; ""The Creation of the Heterodidaskalos""; ""The Organization of Opponents into Chains of Succession""; ""A Call for “Guardians of the Inheritance�""; ""Conclusion""; ""2. Justin�s Advertisement of the Syntagma against All the Heresies""; ""Justin and the Syntagma against All the Heresies"" |
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""The Promotion of Literary Works in the Greco-Roman World""""Advertising and Competition""; ""The Audience of Justin�s 1Apology""; ""Conclusion""; ""3. The Fragmentary Remains of Rival Heresy Catalogues""; ""Hegesippus�s List of the “Seven Heresies among the People�""; ""Justin and the Jewish Heresies""; ""“Hylic� and “Psychic� Heretics in the Tripartite Tractate""; ""Four Peculiar Features of the Syntagma""; ""The Syntagma and the Testimony of Truth""; ""4. Irenaeus, the “School Called Gnostic, � and the Valentinians"" |
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""Part I: The Increasing Popularity of the Syntagma against All the Heresies""""Part II: The Syntagma and the “School Called Gnosticâ€?""; ""Identifying the Gnostic School""; ""The Similar Case of the LogikÄ? Hairesis in the Medical Literature""; ""The Question of Self-Definition""; ""The Universal Church and the Gnostic School""; ""The School of the Valentinians?""; ""Conclusion""; ""Conclusion""; ""Select Bibliography""; ""Index"" |
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"Guilt by Association explores the creation, publication, and circulation of heresy catalogues by second- and early third-century Christians. Polemicists made use of these religious blacklists, which include the names of heretical teachers along with summaries of their unsavory doctrines and nefarious misdeeds, in order to discredit opponents and advocate their expulsion from the "authentic" Christianity community. The heresy catalogue proved to be an especially effective literary technology in struggles for religious authority and legitimacy because it not only recast rival teachers as menacing adversaries, but also reinforced such characterizations by organizing otherwise unaffiliated teachers into coherent intellectual, social, and scholastic communities that are established and sustained by demonic powers. This study focuses especially on the earliest Christian heresy catalogues, those found within the works of Justin, Irenaeus, Hegesippus, and the authors the Testimony of Truth and the Tripartite Tractate, with a special emphasis on the first two. Justin and Irenaeus receive special attention not because as so-called "fathers of the church" they occupy a privileged position in the historical record, but because by promoting and making use of a particular heresy catalogue, the Syntagma against All the Heresies, they popularized one specific heresiological model at the expense of others. By focusing upon the heresy catalogue, Guilt by Association not only accounts for the emergence of the Christian heresiological tradition; it also sheds new light upon the socio-rhetorical aims of the Pastoral Epistles, the circulation of early Christian literature, the emergence of a distinct Christian identity, and the origins of Gnosticism"-- Provided by publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Christian heresies -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600.
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Christian heretics -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600
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Christian literature, Early.
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- History.
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RELIGION -- Biblical Commentary -- New Testament.
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
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Christian literature, Early.
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Christian heresies -- Early church.
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History.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
019938679X |
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9780199386796 |
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9780199386802 |
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0199386803 |
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