The period since the close of World War II has been agonizingly introspective—not least because of the pain of reassessing Christianity’s attitude to Judaism. The early Christian materials have often ...
Gnostic beliefs presented themselves as a major challenge to Irenaeus of Lyons (Against Heresies, ca. A. D. 180), Hippolytus of Rome (the presumed author of the Elenchos Against All Heresies, post-A. ...