“Surely These are Heterodox Teachings”: The Gospel of Mary and Tertullian in Dialogue
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Parkhouse, Sarah. (2020). “Surely These are Heterodox Teachings”: The Gospel of Mary and Tertullian in Dialogue. In In Watson, Francis and Parkhouse, Sarah (Ed.). Telling the Christian Story Differently: Counter-Narratives from Nag Hammadi and Beyond pp. 88 Bloomsbury Publishing plc.
Authors | Parkhouse, Sarah |
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Editors | Watson, Francis and Parkhouse, Sarah |
Abstract | The current trend in scholarship on early Christianity is to highlight the diversity and pluriformity of the second- and third-century church(es). There was no orthodoxy, no mainstream church. Heresiologists do not provide an accurate picture of the Christian landscape and twentieth-century discoveries such as the Nag Hammadi codices demonstrate that there was a fluid and varied model of what it meant to be a Christian. To a large extent, this picture of diversity is accurate. The writers we label as ‘orthodox’ or ‘mainstream’, such as Irenaeus and Clement of Alexandria, Ignatius and Tertullian, show great variation in their understanding of their faith and its practices: there is no one, single, unified definition of |
Keywords | Theology; Christianity; faith; history of Chrisitanity; orthodoxy ; Heresiology; religion |
Page range | 88 |
103 | |
Year | 01 Jan 2020 |
Book title | Telling the Christian Story Differently: Counter-Narratives from Nag Hammadi and Beyond |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing plc |
Place of publication | United Kingdom |
Series | The Reception of Jesus in the First Three Centuries |
ISBN | 978-0-5676-7951-2 |
Web address (URL) | https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph-detail?docid=b-9780567679543&pdfid=9780567679543.ch-005.pdf&tocid=b-9780567679543-chapter5 |
Open access | Published as non-open access |
Research or scholarly | Research |
Publisher's version | License All rights reserved File Access Level Controlled |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
2020 | |
Online | 25 May 2020 |
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Deposited | 15 Aug 2024 |
Additional information | Copyright © Francis Watson, Sarah Parkhouse and contributors, 2020 |
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publishers. |
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