Irenaeus

February 2020

February 07, 2020
Based on long study of Christian history, I offer a couple of strictly non-scientific impressions...

September 2019

September 16, 2019
Not for the first time, I am thinking about gospels, and specifically the four gospels....
September 29, 2017
"In the West ... early Christianity has lost its history." That powerful statement demands some...

March 2015

March 08, 2015
I have been describing the emergence of some key ideas of sectarian Judaism that continue...

February 2015

February 27, 2015
In recent posts on Gnosticism, I have been tracing possible linkages with older Jewish movements....

January 2015

January 16, 2015
The two centuries or so before Jesus’s time were a wildly productive era in terms...

September 2013

September 09, 2013
Based on my study of Christian history, I offer a couple of strictly non-scientific impressions....

August 2013

August 02, 2013
Early Egyptian Christianity had a strong non-orthodox strand, if that “Gnostic” current did not actually...

July 2013

July 29, 2013
I was discussing the theory that the oldest level of Egypt’s Christianity was very different...
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