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Tradition et progrès : le commonitorium /.
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ISBN: 2220021882 9782220021881 Year: 1978 Volume: 7 Publisher: Paris Desclée de Brouwer


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Heresy and criticism : the search for authenticity in early Christian literature
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ISBN: 0664219713 9780664219710 Year: 1993 Publisher: Louisville Westminster/John Knox Press

The Panarion of Epiphanius of Salamis.
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ISBN: 9004079262 9004098984 9004439668 9004438971 9789004079267 9789004098985 9789004439665 Year: 1994 Volume: 36 35 Publisher: Leiden, The Netherlands ; New York ; Köln : E. J. Brill,

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Epiphanius, bishop of Salamis on Cyprus from about 367 until 402, was a witness to and participant in the troubled era after the Council of Nicaea. His Panarion, or "Medicine Chest," is an historical encyclopedia of ideas and movements he considered heretical, and of the replies Christians ought to make to them. Book II and III deal with the Trinity, the Person of Christ, the divinity and personality of the Holy Spirit, Manichaeism, penance, matrimony and celibacy, monastic regulations, the Christian Calendar, all hotly contested topics in the fourth century. Book I, issued by Brill in 1987, concerns Gnosticism and Jewish Christianity. Together, the two volumes are the only complete translation of the Panarion in a modern language.

Débat entre un Luciférien et un orthodoxe
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ISBN: 2204071153 9782204071154 Year: 2003 Volume: 473 Publisher: Paris Les éditions du cerf

The past is prologue : the revolution of Nicene historiography
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ISSN: 0920623X ISBN: 9004144579 9789004144576 9781429453479 1429453478 143370577X 9781433705779 128086835X 9786610868353 9047407830 Year: 2005 Volume: 75 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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While there has been substantial scholarly work done on the development of Christian doctrine in the fourth and fifth centuries, very little corresponding attention has been paid to the writing of church history during this critical period. This work examines how authors began to construct the historical narrative of the “Arian” controversy and focuses on the interplay between theology and worshipping communities. Major figures such as Eusebius and Athanasius are examined, and important but overlooked figures such as an anonymous non-Nicene chronicler and Philostorgius are also included. In the introduction the book surveys recent developments in the study of “Arianism” and discusses the usefulness of the very category of an “Arian controversy.” Subsequent chapters set forth the thesis that church histories are important sources for understanding the development of doctrine. A chapter is devoted to Eusebius’ Ecclesiastical History, especially the oft-overlooked Book X. Further chapters explore the role of Rufinus as the first extant author to write a continuation of Eusebius. The work also consciously includes marginalized non-Nicene sources, and there are chapters which examine an anonymous non-Nicene chronicler and the Ecclesiastical History of the Eunomian Philostorgius of Borissus. The book is particularly useful for persons interested in examining the development of doctrine in the fourth century from fresh perspectives. The work approaches church histories as narrative myths of community origins produced by worshipping communities standing in continuity to local schools of thought.

De l'ancienne à la nouvelle Alliance selon S.Irénée : unité du livre 4 de l'Adversus haereses
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ISBN: 2249601216 2870370474 9782249601217 Year: 1978 Volume: 58 1 Publisher: Namur Presses universitaires de Namur

Heresiography in context : Hippolytus' Elenchos as a source for Greek philosophy
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ISBN: 9004096167 9004320768 9789004096165 9789004320765 Year: 1992 Volume: 56 Publisher: Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill,

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The study of the Elenchos (c. 225 CE) involves the whole range of ancient interpretative traditions concerned with Greek Philosophy, from Aristotle to the Late Neoplatonists. The present inquiry places Hippolytus' important reports about the Greek philosophers in the context of these traditions and so is able to illuminate not only what he has to offer but also to increase our knowledge of the traditions he depends on. For him the Pythagoreanizing current in Pre-Neoplatonism is of paramount importance. Accordingly, he constructs a succession ( diadoche ) starting with Pythagoras and including Empedocles, Heraclitus, Plato, Aristotle and the Stoics, and argues that the diadoche of the Gnostic heresiarchs is parasitical on its Pythagorean predecessor. A new assessment of the sources used — the first serious attempt since that of Diels in 1879 — hinges on an analysis of Hippolytus' method of presentation, which is a blend of cento and exegesis geared to his anti-Gnostic purpose.

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