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- Title
JEWISH CHRISTIANS AS HERESIOLOGISTS AND AS HERESY.
- Authors
Jones, F. Stanley
- Abstract
By focusing on the ancient Jewish Christians, this essay fills a gap in the study of early Christian heresiology: the transition between ancient Jewish sectarian discourse and early Gentile Christian heresiology. First, it isolates key Second Temple Jewish sectarian terminology and then examines how the early Jewish Christians adopted this discourse for their own heresiological purposes. Next, it explores Jewish Christian integration of this terminology with the rising distinctive Gentile Christian heresiological discourse. One sees that the Jewish Christians inadvertently paved the way for Jewish sects to enter Christian catalogues of heresies. The pinnacle of the Jewish Christian heresiological accomplishment is the intellectual Simon Magus of the Pseudo-Clementines, the prototype of Faust. In a second section, the article explores the stages through which the Jewish Christians came to be classified as heretics. It pays special attention to Marcion's role in this process. The evolving ecclesiastical classification of the Jewish Christians as a heresy displays an unusually persistent uneasiness, rooted in a nagging historical memory, but the Imperial Church closes the door on the Jewish Christians.
- Subjects
JEWISH Christians; HERESY; GENTILES; CHRISTIAN heresies; JEWISH heretics; MARCION, of Sinope, fl. 2nd century; PRIMITIVE &; early church, ca. 30-600
- Publication
Rivista di Storia del Cristianesimo, 2009, Vol 6, Issue 2, p333
- ISSN
1827-7365
- Publication type
Article