Beginning with Walter Bauer in 1934, the denial of clear orthodoxy in early Christianity has shaped and largely defined modern New Testament criticism, recently given new life through the work of spokesmen like Bart Ehrman.
54 Davidson, The Birth of the Church (2004) A more recent critique of Bauer comes in Ivor J. Davidson's history of the early church. He concludes that Bauer has ignored the evidence of theological diversity with the Roman church itself, ...
In A Companion to SecondCentury Christian “Heretics,” edited by Antti Marjanen and Petri Loumanen. VCSup 76. Leiden: Brill, 2005. ... Gnosis: An Introduction. Translated by John Bowden. ... Marshall, I. Howard. “Orthodoxy and Heresy in ...
While this book proposes a revision in the scholarly perception of early Christendom, it also demonstrates the essential unity of the tradition.
Presents the first systematic and cross-cultural examination of ideas of orthodoxy and heresy in a group of major religious traditions.
Orthodoxy and heresy in earliest Christianity
To the contrary, Gerd Ludemann argues that the time from the first Christian communities to the end of the second century was defined by struggle by various groups for doctrinal authority.
From Arius, a fourth-century Libyan cleric who doubted the very divinity of Christ, to more successful heretics like Martin Luther and John Calvin, this book charts the history of dissent in the Christian Church.
Now, in a timely corrective to this trend, renowned church historian Alister McGrath examines the history of subversive ideas, overturning common misconceptions that heresy is somehow more spiritual or liberating than traditional dogma.
This study challenges the adequacy of the reconstruction of primitive Christianity advanced by Walter Bauer in Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity - the theory that so-called heretical movements were...