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	History of Gnosticism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Despite these problems, scholarly discussion of Gnosticism at first relied heavily on Irenaeus and other heresiologists, which arguably has led to an 'infiltration' of heresiological agendas into modern scholarship; in fairness to the first investigators this was not by choice, but because of a simple lack of alternative sources.
		The Nag Hammadi library generally confirms that the heresiologists' summaries of Gnosticism give an accurate, albeit incomplete and polemical, portrayal of the movement, its beliefs and practices.
		Reconstructions were attempted from the records of the heresiologists, but these were necessarily coloured by the motivation behind the source accounts (see above).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_Gnosticism (4620 words)

	the canon of the new testament
		We saw in an earlier article the contrast between the "orthodox" heresiologists and their slander against the "heretics" where they accused them of atrocious behavior.
		We then saw accounts of the supreme piety of the "orthodox" on the other which I should remind you were written by writers from this "orthodox" camp.
		The rise of the Christian canon thus represents one of the weapons of the orthodox arsenal, used to establish the orthodox version of Christianity to the exclusion of all competing views.
	firstnewtestament.netfirms.com /canon_new_testament.htm (2433 words)

	New age / gnostic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		This presented a problem for the heresiologists writing on gnostic movements: as this mode of behaviour was one which they themselves favoured and supported, the Church Fathers, it seemed, would be required perforce to offer support to the practices of their theological opponents.
		In order to avoid this, a common heresiological approach was to avoid the issue completely by resorting to slanderous (and, in some cases, excessive) allegations of libertinism, or to explain Gnostic asceticism as being based on incorrect interpretations of scripture, or simply duplicitous in nature.
		Williams argues that the conceptual foundations on which the category of Gnosticism rests are the remains of the agenda of the heresiologists.
	www.new-age-guide.com /new_age/gnostic.htm (7116 words)

	Gnosticism FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Despite this modern discussion of gnosticism at first relied heavily on Irenaeus and other heresiologists, which arguably has led to an 'infiltration' of heresiological agendas into modern scholarship; in fairness to the first investigators this was not by choice, but because of a simple lack of alternative sources.
		Williams argues throughout that the conceptual foundations on which the category of gnosticism rests are the remains of the agenda of the heresiologists.
		In essence, the interpretive definition of gnosticism that was created by the antagonistic efforts of the heresiologists has been taken up by modern sholarship and reflected in a ''categorical'' definition, even though the means now exist to verify its accuracy.
	www.webguidelive.com /en/Gnosticism (9711 words)

	Gnosticism
		Prior to the first half of the twentieth century such early heresiologists (defenders of Christianity against heresy) as Irenaeus, Tertullian, Hippolytus, and Epiphanius were our principal sources of information concerning the Gnostics.
		These heresiologists were scathing in their denunciations of the Gnostics, who were perceived as leading Christians astray by the manipulation of words and the twisting of scriptural meanings.
		The heresiologists' view concerning Gnosticism was generally regarded as acceptable even at the end of the nineteenth century, when Adolf Harnack defined Gnosticism as the "acute secularizing of Christianity."
	mb-soft.com /believe/txn/gnostici.htm (3815 words)

	The Ecole Initiative: Docetism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		This was not, however, what the church's heresiologists specified as a salient characteristic of docetism.
		The heresiologists named as Docetists those who believed that Christ's divinity was irreconcilable with his actually having been physically born.
		The latter hold doctrines that are patently Gnostic in orientation, including their abhorrence of the idea that the Christ should suffer; but the "apparentness" of Christ's suffering is eclipsed by the complicated Gnostic cosmologies intertwined with the particular christological issue in question here.
	www2.evansville.edu /ecoleweb/articles/docetism.html (1470 words)

	The ordination of women in the Roman Catholic Church
		Most of the evidence for these groups comes only from the heresiologists precisely because the majority of the books and documents written by such groups perished with them in the eventual triumph of the Catholic Church as it gained political ascendancy as well as doctrinal clarity.
		The Declaration goes on to say that these heretical sects “entrusted the exercise of the priestly ministry to women.” It is unclear in the Declaration itself, just as it is in most texts of the period of church history which we are considering, precisely what “priestly ministry” does and does not include.
		The first is that they considered it predominantly a practice of heretics, and in the mindset and literary style of most of their writings, anything connected with the heretical must be wrong.
	www.womenpriests.org /classic/osiek.asp (1756 words)

	Contending For the Faith \| faithCommons.org
		Some of his apostles were killed or imprisoned in the name of orthodoxyi (even pagan orthodoxy), while others were just seen as troublemakers.
		The heresiologists of the second century began labeling those they found contorting the truth.
		With the nationalization of Christianity by Constantine in the early fourth century, Christian heresiologists had the full power of the Roman empire behind them and could eradicate heresy by threat of death.
	faithcommons.org /node/536 (1220 words)

	SIMON MAGUS *Gnostic Magician
		And so most think that there is an end of the matter, and either cast their mite of pity or contempt at the memory of Simon, or laugh at the whole matter as the invention of superstition or the imagination of religious fanaticism, according as their respective beliefs may be in orthodoxy or materialism.
		And though this assumption of the patristic heresiologists is entirely incorrect, as may be proved from their own works, it is nevertheless true that Simonianism is the first system that, as far as our present records go, came into conflict with what has been regarded as the orthodox stream of Christianity.
		A second reason is that I believe that Simon has been grossly misrepresented, and entirely misunderstood, by his orthodox opponents, whoever they were, in the first place, and also, in the second place, by those who have ignorantly and without enquiry copied from them.
	site.ivenue.com /procureroftheobscure1/item119796.ctlg (471 words)

	Tough
		Tough in which he favorably contrasts his own moral toughness to the toughness of right wing Jews (those right-wing heresiologists who scream "moral equivalence" at the sight of an inconvenient similarity between, say, the death of Palestinian children due to Israeli army actions and Jewish children due to Einsatzgruppen actions).
		The wrong ones must be criticized, but generally not as a form of blasphemy or treason.
		Most of the right-wing heresiologists who scream "moral equivalence" at the sight of an inconvenient similarity intend mainly to shore up their own thinking or to shut down the thinking of others.
	members.cox.net /edremler/Papers/Tough.html (1018 words)

	Early Christian Small Study Groups - Mary Sheridan - Theandros - An Online journal of Orthodox Christian Theology and ...
		He was contemporaneous with small study groups and was the first of the heresiologists whose work scholars do generally agree was the first heresiological work to survive.
		It indicates both that the heresiologists were the first to apply the word "Gnostics’ (gnostikoi) to the early Christian small study groups and that the heresiologists themselves must have been searching for a short, handy term they could use when referring to these groups.
		Finally, it should be noted that the term "early Christian small study groups" was deliberately used throughout this paper to emphasize the fact that this term is certainly a cumbersome and almost tongue-twisting term-obviously one that soon starts one looking for another, shorter, more concise term.
	www.theandros.com /studygroups.html (6010 words)

	Gnostic Christianity and the Myth of Sophia
		In this work he attempts systematically to classify the sects and their founders, but it turns instead into a long and tiresome attack.
		Any who could claim their teachings were directly handed down from the original apostles could assume an authority and position over those who had no such claim.
		A Gnostic tenet that became hated by the heresiologists was that of emanations.
	www.essene.com /Gospels/GnosticAndSophia.html (11579 words)

	Case Western Reserve University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The end result was that according to rabbinic Judaism a Jew cannot stop being a Jew, an idea encapsulated by the late amoraic principle, "an Israelite, even though he sinned, remains an Israelite" (bSan 44a).
		This effort is mirrored by those of Christian heresiologists who define and label heresies.
		The picture which Boyarin paints of the legendary gathering in Yavneh contrasts with the prevalent conception that Yavneh was a pluralistic attempt to end the pervasive sectarianism which had previously plagued Judaism.
	www.case.edu /artsci/rosenthal/reviews/Border_Lines.htm (1383 words)

	The Dutch Radical Approach to the Pauline Epistles
		In fact the whole "Ebionite" movement as described by the church heresiologists comes across to me as odd.
		The type of Judaism it supposedly expresses seems closest to that of Philo, while still remaining far away from it.
		The organization of his sect reminds me of second and third century heresiologists' descriptions of Gnostic sects and their cosmology.
	lists.ibiblio.org /pipermail/corpus-paul/20010801/002847.html (556 words)

	Institute for Antiquity and Christianity
		This papyrus fragment, one of the 2500 fragments belonging to what was once a Coptic Book, contains the name of a Gnostic group, the “Sethians,” only known from Christian heresiologists, as well as names of Sethian cosmological beings, previously attested only in the Nag Hammadi corpus.
		The painstaking and time consuming work of regrouping, replacing, and reconnecting the scattered fragments will result in the restoration of a previously unknown text that provides a rare glimpse into the thought-world of early Alexandrian Christianity.
		One of the larger fragments (shown at right) contains names of cosmological beings known from the Nag Hammadi corpus, and then refers explicitly to “the teaching of the Sethians,” a Gnostic group attested only by the later heresiologists.
	iac.cgu.edu /coptictexts.html (433 words)

	The Counter Cult Movement
		CCM or discernment ministries) is composed primarily of conservative Protestant Christian individuals and agencies who attempt to raise public concern about religious groups which they feel hold dangerous, non-traditional beliefs.
		Those in the CCM are sometimes called heresy hunters or heresiologists.
		CCM ministries generally believe that God will send members of many "cults" to Hell after they die, because they have believed the false teachings of their faith groups.
	www.religioustolerance.org /ccm.htm (545 words)

	did the early christological controversies affect the scribes that transmitted the new testament?
		The point is not that these familiar authors and heresiologists such as Justin, Irenaeus, Tertullian, and Hippolytus evidence the predominance of the orthodox view.
		In many respects, the Gnostics we now know from primary sources from the finds at Nag Hammadi, Egypt, in 1945, are quite different from those described in theological terms by the anti-Gnostic orthodox fathers.
		Thus, the common notion that heresy was always on the run, always assuming a defensive posture, as presented in the writings of such heresiologists as Justin, Irenaeus, Tertullian, and Hippolytus has now had to be revised.
	firstnewtestament.netfirms.com /did_early_christology_affect_scribes_transmit_new_testament.htm (2974 words)

	The Da Vinci Code--Ancient Christianity: Quick Facts -- Beliefnet.com
		Despite this negative judgment, it is important to keep in mind that ancient people who might fall under the category of “gnostic” would not have thought of themselves as deviant or in any way heretical.
		Early Christian “heresiologists” (Christians who wrote treatises denouncing beliefs and practices that they considered heretical) argued that gnostics (among others) imported ideas from the outside culture which poisoned the pure tradition of Christian faith stemming from Jesus.
		Many contemporary scholars are rethinking the category of “Gnosticism” in the light of this valuable new material.
	www.beliefnet.com /story/186/story_18615_1.html (1029 words)

	Cornell College - Student Symposium
		Had the politics of the first few centuries of the Common Era been somewhat different, Gnosticism might now be the dominant religion of the West.
		In reality, Gnosticism is principally of interest to Christian heresiologists and those concerned with anti-Semitic or anti-Judaic sentiments.
		As a religious category, it is often poorly defined and only partially understood.
	www.cornellcollege.edu /student_symposium/2004/mullin_matthew.shtml (205 words)

	gnosticism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		With the knowledge we now have of the Nag Hammadi texts, classifying Gnosticism as one movement has become problematic.
		Using the primary sources, heresiologists and modern academic texts, I will explore ideas which have been used as unifying - “body-denying,” for example - as well as new ways of classifying the texts.
		The goal of this exam is to explore both old and new categories of classification and to determine how Gnosticism can and cannot be considered a “movement”.
	web.syr.edu /~ajbeall/gnosticism.html (364 words)

	Page 420
		It is true that the heresiologists describe him as the su preme God and even as the Redeemer, but a careful study of the sources, particularly of the extant fragments of his " Great Announcement " (pre served by Hippolytus, Philosophumena, vi.
		Helena, wtio is-unknown to Acts, the apocryphal Acts, the Alexandrine heresiologists, or the " Great Announce ment," but whose name (" Moon "), combined with the immoral past ascribed her and her Tyrian home, obviously points to the Tyrian moon-goddess with her licentious rites.
		4), and finally giving rise to two systems, that of the " Great Announcement " and that described by the heresiologists who based their writings upon Justin.
	www.ccel.org /s/schaff/encyc/encyc10/htm-old/0438=420.htm (843 words)

	Cathar Connections to Gnosticism Continued
		While we know little of gnostic behavior, certain texts do indicate that an ascetic lifestyle was expected, at least within Christian, Valentinian gnosticism.
		As it was also with the gnostics, heresiologists often accused the Cathars of licentiousness, including orgies and other bizarre sexual behavior.
		It is, of course, impossible to know whether there is any truth to these allegations.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/church_history/25509 (383 words)

	Border Lines \| Boyarin, Daniel
		Rather, Jesus-following Jews and Jews who did not follow Jesus lived on a cultural map in which beliefs, such as that in a second divine being, and practices, such as keeping kosher or maintaining the Sabbath, were widely and variably distributed.
		The ultimate distinctions between Judaism and Christianity were imposed from above by "border-makers," heresiologists anxious to construct a discrete identity for Christianity.
		By defining some beliefs and practices as Christian and others as Jewish or heretical, they moved ideas, behaviors, and people to one side or another of an artificial border—and, Boyarin significantly contends, invented the very notion of religion.
	www.upenn.edu /pennpress/book/14013.html (593 words)

	Simon Magus
		Fellow "Gurus" included Jesus "of Nazareth" (actually the town of Nazareth did not yet exist at this time - see Donovan Joyce, The Jesus Scroll, pp.26-31 [1972, Ferret Books, Melbourne] and Appolonius of Tyre.
		A Simon is also mentioned (in a rather poor light) in the Acts of the bible, but contrary to the claims of the heresiologists there is no proof this was the same person.
		Anyway, the Gnostic Simon claimed that he was an incarnation of God; a common enough "Guru-ist" claim, then [Hans Jonas, The Gnostic Religion, p.104] as well as now.
	www.kheper.net /topics/Gnosticism/Simon_Magus.htm (280 words)

	First Unitarian Church of Sioux City:
		This movement originated in the pre-Christian cultures of the Mediterranean, and gained a fair amount of notoriety one or two centuries after the death of Christ.
		Gnosticism ceased to be an openly practiced form of spirituality by the Sixth Century A.D. when it became a curiosity to be studied by heresiologists.
		Among Gnostics, gnosis was the “knowledge of the heart” or “insight” about the spiritual nature of the cosmos that brought about “salvation” … Among heresiologists gnosis denotes different belief systems of esoteric nature, such as, first and foremost, gnosticism and other dualist systems the first two centuries AD, but also Rosicrucianism, Christian Kabbalah, etc.
	www.siouxcityuu.org /gnosticpaganism.htm (3396 words)

	Order of Nazorean Essenes
		Latin Heresiologists: Augustine: Morals of the Catholic Church, Morals of the Manichaeans, Concerning Two Souls: Against the Manichaeans, Disputations Against Fortunatus, the Manichaean, Against the Fundamental Epistle of Mani, Against Faustus, the Manichaea, Concerning the Nature of Good: Against the Manichaeans; Fragmenta Tebestina;
		Arabic Heresiologists: Simonetta Calderini, Ibn an-Nadîm's Fihrist al-'ulûm
		Greek Heresiologists: Iraneus; "Against Heresies" A.D. 189, Acta Archelai, Paul the Persian, Serapion, Didymus, Alexander, Simplicius
	essenes.net /tertiarytexts.html (2668 words)

	Ignatius and all that! (Part Two)
		Or the terms may be employed in combinations such as the Zealots for Righteousness, the Perfect of the Way.
		Christian Church heresiologists of the third to the fifth centuries C.E. write of Naassenes, Nazoraeans, Sampsaeans or Sabaeans the Nazirites and Elchasaites.
		And we dare not forget Marcion with his seat in all probability at Hieropolis and other contenders.
	lists.ibiblio.org /pipermail/corpus-paul/20010816/002875.html (468 words)

	The Gnostic Scriptures - ReligionFacts
		Among his anti-heretical treatises, written in Latin, are The Prescription Against Heretics, Against Marcion, Against the Valentinians, and Against Praxeas.
		Like Hippolytus and other heresiologists, Tertullian connects heresy to philosophy {2}, an activity he famously opposed in favor of faith.
		In addition to descriptions and quotations by ancient authors hostile to Gnosticism, a few original Gnostic texts had been discovered prior to 1945.
	www.religionfacts.com /christianity/texts/gnostic.htm (1778 words)

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