Opening book details…
Can I read A Study in Anti-Gnostic Polemics: Irenaeus, Hippolytus and Epiphanius (Studies in Christianity and Judaism, 1.) on EtoBox?
A Study in Anti-Gnostic Polemics: Irenaeus, Hippolytus and Epiphanius (Studies in Christianity and Judaism, 1.) by Gérard Vallée is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.
What is A Study in Anti-Gnostic Polemics: Irenaeus, Hippolytus and Epiphanius (Studies in Christianity and Judaism, 1.) about?
Gnostic beliefs presented themselves as a major challenge to Irenaeus of Lyons (Against Heresies, ca. A.D. 180), Hippolytus of Rome (the presumed author of the Elenchos Against All Heresies, post-A.D. 222), and Epiphanius of Salamis (Panarion, A.D. 374-77). What was at stake for them were life-and-death issues; the nature of Christianity and the question of truth. While recent manuscript finds shed new light on gnostic thought, the writings of the heresiologists are still indispensable—for knowl
Who reads A Study in Anti-Gnostic Polemics: Irenaeus, Hippolytus and Epiphanius (Studies in Christianity and Judaism, 1.)?
It is typically read by readers engaging with religious study and devotional practice.
Common subject areas: religion, theology.
- Author
- Gérard Vallée
- Publisher
- Published for the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion/Corporation canadienne des sciences religieuses by Wilfrid Laurier University Press; Published for the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion by Wilfrid University Press
- Published
- 1981
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780889205741
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- History, Literary Fiction, Christian
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
Other editions & translations
More by Gérard Vallée
Browse all works by Gérard Vallée
Similar books
- The Panarion of Epiphanius of Salamis: Book I: (sects 1-46) Second Edition, Revised and Expanded (Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies) — translated by Frank Williams (2009)
- Irenaeus of Lyons: Identifying Christianity (Christian Theology in Context) — John Behr (2013)
- God and Christ in Irenaeus (Oxford Early Christian Studies) — Anthony Briggman (2018)
- Epiphanius of Cyprus: A Cultural Biography of Late Antiquity (Volume 2) (Christianity in Late Antiquity) — Andrew S. Jacobs (2016)
- Judaism, Christianity, And Zoroastrianism In Talmudic Babylonia (studies In Judaism) — Neusner, Jacob , 1932-2016 (1986)
- Studies in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity (Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity, 87) — Pieter Willem van der Horst (2014)