1. These are the contents of the 6th (book) of the Refutation of all Heresies . 2. What Simon has dared, and that his doctrine is confirmed (by quotations) from magicians and poets. 3. What Valentinus...

1. These are the contents of the 6th (book) of the Refutation of all Heresies . 2. What Simon has dared, and that his doctrine is confirmed (by quotations) from magicians and poets. 3. What Valentinus...

The early Church Orders were systematic manuals of disciplinary and liturgical rules for which the collective authority of the whole apostolate was claimed. They made their appearance in the second century,...

The story of the discovery of the book here translated so resembles a romance as to appear like a flower in the dry and dusty field of patristic lore. A short treatise called Philosophumena , or “Philosophizings,”...