A companion to second-century Christian "heretics".9004144641 A companion to second-century Christian "heretics". Ed. by Antti Marjanen and Petri Luomanen. Brill Brill or Bril, Flemish painters, brothers. Mattys Brill (mä`tīs), 1550–83, went to Rome early in his career and executed frescoes for Gregory XIII in the Vatican. Academic Publishers 2005 385 pages $169.00 Hardcover Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae; v.76 BT1319 Theologians from Finland, the Netherlands, and the US examine the documents, groups, and people that had been marginalized and denounced as heretical he·ret·i·cal adj. 1. Of or relating to heresy or heretics. 2. Characterized by, revealing, or approaching departure from established beliefs or standards. by the emerging Great Church before it and its doctrines became official law of the Roman Empire. The selection was limited to groups that had a significant enough impact on the early church that literature was generated by or, more commonly, about them that has survived to be scrutinized by modern scholars. They include Basilides the Gnostic, the school of Valentinus, Tatian the Assyrian, the egalitarian e·gal·i·tar·i·an adj. Affirming, promoting, or characterized by belief in equal political, economic, social, and civil rights for all people. and ecstatic ec·stat·ic adj. 1. Marked by or expressing ecstasy. 2. Being in a state of ecstasy; joyful or enraptured. [French extatique, from Greek ekstatikos, from new prophecy Prophecy See also Omen. Prosperity (See SUCCESS.) Ancaeus prophecy that he would not live to taste the wine from his vineyards is fulfilled. [Gk. Myth. of Montanism, Ebionites, Nazarenes, and the Jewish Christianity of the Pseudo-Clementines. ([c] 2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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