The Seed of Seth

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Litwa, Matthew. (2022). The Seed of Seth. In Found Christianities : Remaking the World of the Second Century CE pp. 83 Bloomsbury Publishing plc.

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Authors	Litwa, Matthew
Abstract	It might seem strange today that a group of early Christians would depict the creator as a lion-faced serpent, a miscarriage expelled from the divine world, a rapist and enemy of the spiritual race – but such is the depiction of several Christian thinkers toward the midpoint of the second century. These thinkers were part of a larger Christian movement that called itself, among other names, “the Seed (that is, offspring) of Seth.”
Keywords	Christianity; theology; church history; Seth; Gnostic; religion studies
Page range	83
	98
Year	01 Jan 2022
Book title	Found Christianities : Remaking the World of the Second Century CE
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing plc
Place of publication	United Kingdom
Edition	1st
ISBN	978-0-5677-0388-0
Web address (URL)	https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/found-christianities-9780567703880/
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