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Author: Geoffrey S. Smith

Few literary innovations have exercised as much influence upon Christian attitudes toward internal diversity as has the practice of organizing the names and alleged misdeeds of rival teachers into heresy catalogues. For two millennia, followers of Jesus have employed the heresy catalogue as a powerful weapon in internal struggles for legitimacy, authority, and supremacy. Despite its enduring popularity and influence within the Christian tradition, the heresy catalogue remains an underappreciated polemical genre among historians of early Christianity. 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 especially effective 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.Geoffrey Smith focuses especially on the earliest Christian heresy catalogues, including those found within the works of Justin, Irenaeus, and Hegesippus, to shed new light upon the complex process through which early Christianity took shape.

Guilt by Association Heresy Catalogues in Early Christianity 1st Table of contents:

1. Doxography, Pseudo-Pauline Literature, and the Christian Heresy Catalogue

The Early Christian Heresy Catalogue

Greek Doxography and the Origins of the Heresy Catalogue

The Pseudepigraphic Pauline Epistle

The Creation of the Heterodidaskalos

The Organization of Opponents into Chains of Succession

A Call for “Guardians of the Inheritance”

Conclusion

2. Justin’s Advertisement of the Syntagma against All the Heresies

Justin and the Syntagma against All the Heresies

The Promotion of Literary Works in the Greco-Roman World

Advertising and Competition

The Audience of Justin’s 1Apology

Conclusion

3. The Fragmentary Remains of Rival Heresy Catalogues

Hegesippus’s List of the “Seven Heresies among the People”

Justin and the Jewish Heresies

“Hylic” and “Psychic” Heretics in the Tripartite Tractate

Four Peculiar Features of the Syntagma

The Syntagma and the Testimony of Truth

4. Irenaeus, the “School Called Gnostic,” and the Valentinians

Part I: The Increasing Popularity of the Syntagma against All the Heresies

Part II: The Syntagma and the “School Called Gnostic”

Identifying the Gnostic School

The Similar Case of the Logikē Hairesis in the Medical Literature

The Question of Self-Definition

The Universal Church and the Gnostic School

The School of the Valentinians?

Conclusion

Conclusion

Select Bibliography

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