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Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest ChristianityWalter Bauer
Gnosticism & Christian Mysticism
Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity
- First published1971
- TraditionGnosticism
- Shelf132 books
The English translation of Bauer's influential 1934 study, which argued that in many early Christian regions forms of belief later called heretical came first. The book transformed the debate on early Christian diversity and on the reliability of the heresiologists.








