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Adolf Harnack: Marcion
De Gruyter 2003; US$ 210.00The Dorpat (Tartu) prize paper by the 19-year-old Adolf Harnack (1851-1930) with the title "Marcion. Der moderne Gläubige des 2. Jahrhunderts, der erste Reformator" (Marcion. The Modern Believer of the 2nd Century, the First Reformer) was awarded the Gold Medal by the Theological Faculty in Tartu and recommended for publication. However, it remained... more...
Against the Protestant Gnostics
Oxford University Press, USA 1993; US$ 20.99In this penetrating and provocative assessment of the current state of religion and its effects on society at large, Philip J. Lee criticizes conservatives and liberals alike as he traces gnostic motifs to the very roots of American Protestantism. With references to an extraordinary spectrum of writings from sources as diverse as John Calvin, Martin... more...
Alexandri Lycopolitani contra Manichaei opiniones disputatio
De Gruyter 1895; US$ 56.00Alexandri Lycopolitani Contra Manichaei Opiniones Disputatio more...
The Arch-Heretic Marcion
Mohr Siebeck 2010; US$ 63.63Hauptbeschreibung Marcion is unanimously acknowledged to be one of the most important and most intriguing figures of the Early Church. In spite of this importance, there is no comprehensive up-to-date study on his life and thought. Thus, the desire to fill this gap within the academic world - which is inconvenient for both students and professors... more...
Asceticism and Exegesis in Early Christianity
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2013; US$ 97.04Hauptbeschreibung How to make asceticism fit into Christianity. more...
Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa, and the Transformation of Divine Simplicity
OUP Oxford 2009; US$ 99.99Divine simplicity is the idea that, as the ultimate principle of the universe, God must be a non-composite unity not made up of parts or diverse attributes. The idea was appropriated by early Christian theologians from non-Christian philosophy and played a pivotal role in the development of Christian thought. Andrew Radde-Gallwitz charts the progress... more...
Beyond Gnosticism
Columbia University Press 2008; US$ 59.99Valentinus was a popular, influential, and controversial early Christian teacher. His school flourished in the second and third centuries C.E. Yet because his followers ascribed the creation of the visible world not to a supreme God but to an inferior and ignorant Creator-God, they were from early on accused of heresy, and rumors were spread of their... more...
A Brief History of Heresy
Wiley 2008; US$ 113.95This short and accessible book introduces readers to the problems of heresy, schism and dissidence over the last two millennia. The heresies under discussion range from Gnosticism, influential in the early Christian period, right through to modern sects. The idea of a heretic conjures up many images, from the martyrs prepared to die for their beliefs,... more...
Bulletproof
The Doubleday Religious Publishing Group 2009; US$ 13.99Would you like to have the confidence, the kind of driving purpose, that shuts out all fear? Do you want your life to be filled with adventure? There are many kinds of soldiers, and the ones that this book is written for don?t necessarily wear a uniform. The missions these soldiers undertake have more than just political or historical significance?they... more...
A Companion to Second-Century Christian 'Heretics'
BRILL 2008; US$ 73.00The book deals with thinkers and movements that were embraced by many second-century religious seekers but which are now largely forgotten or known only as "heretics": Basilides, Sethianism, Valentinus' school, Marcion, Tatian, Bardaisan, Montanists, Cerinthus, Ebionites, Nazarenes, Jewish-Christianity of the "Pseudo-Clementines,"... more...









