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Catholicity and Heresy in the Early Church (Paperback, New Ed)
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While it has often been recognised that the development of
Christian orthodoxy was stimulated by the speculations of those who
are now called heretics, it is still widely assumed that their
contribution was merely catalytic, that they called forth the
exposition of what the main church already believed but had not yet
been required to formulate. This book maintains that scholars have
underrated the constructive role of these "heretical" speculations
in the evolution of dogma, showing that salient elements in the
doctrines of the fall, the Trinity and the union of God and man in
Christ derive from teachings that were initially rejected by the
main church. Mark Edwards also reveals how authors who epitomised
orthodoxy in their own day sometimes favoured teachings which were
later considered heterodox, and that their doctrines underwent
radical revision before they became a fixed element of orthodoxy.
The first half of the volume discusses the role of Gnostic
theologians in the formation of catholic thought; the second half
will offer an unfashionable view of the controversies which gave
rise to the councils of Nicaea, Ephesus and Chalcedon . Many of the
theories advanced here have not been broached elsewhere, and no
synthesis on this scale had been attempted by other scholars. While
this book proposes a revision in the scholarly perception of early
Christendom, it also demonstrates the essential unity of the
tradition.
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