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Guilt by Association - Heresy Catalogues in Early Christianity (Hardcover)
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Guilt by Association - Heresy Catalogues in Early Christianity (Hardcover)
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Guilt by Association explores the creation, publication, and
circulation of heresy catalogues by second- and early third-century
Christians. Polemicists made use of these religious blacklists,
which include the names of heretical teachers along with summaries
of their unsavory doctrines and nefarious misdeeds, in order to
discredit opponents and advocate their expulsion from the
"authentic" Christianity community.
The heresy catalogue proved to be an especially effective literary
technology in struggles for religious authority and legitimacy
because it not only recast rival teachers as menacing adversaries,
but also reinforced such characterizations by organizing otherwise
unaffiliated teachers into coherent intellectual, social, and
scholastic communities that are established and sustained by
demonic powers.
This study focuses especially on the earliest Christian heresy
catalogues, those found within the works of Justin, Irenaeus,
Hegesippus, and the authors the Testimony of Truth and the
Tripartite Tractate. By focusing upon the heresy catalogue, Guilt
by Association not only accounts for the emergence of the Christian
heresiological tradition; it also sheds new light upon the
socio-rhetorical aims of the Pastoral Epistles, the circulation of
early Christian literature, the emergence of a distinct Christian
identity, and the origins of Gnosticism.
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