A Companion to Second-Century Christian 'Heretics'

by Petri Luomanen

The book illuminates "the other side" of early Christianity by examining thinkers and movements that were embraced by many second-century religious seekers as legitimate forms of Christianity, but which are now largely forgotten, or are known only from the characteristics attributed to them in the writings of their main adversaries.
The collection deals with the following teachers and movements: Basilides, Sethianism, Valentinus' school, Marcion,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004144641
• ISBN13: 9789004144644
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.6"