For centuries, the history of early Christianity has been told as a victory of "orthodoxy" over "heresy." However, modern scholarship—most notably the work of Walter Bauer—suggests that the second and third centuries were characterized by an immense diversity of Christian expressions. In many regions, what later became known as "heresy" was, in fact, the local majority practice.
This book seeks to examine these diverse currents not as "errors" to be corrected, but as valid historical responses to the spiritual and political pressures of the Late Antique world.
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