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Tables of Contents for Heretics
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xiii
 
An Explanation to my Readers
xv
 
Introduction: Method and Interests
1
14
Demarcations and positive construction
2
10
The structure of the present book
12
3
Irenaeus of Lyons and Tertullian of Carthage: The Most Important Heresiologists in the Early Christian Period
15
12
I. Irenaeus
15
7
The lay-out of Irenaeus' work `Against the Heresies'
15
1
Irenaeus' interest
16
5
The theology of Irenaeus
21
1
II.Tertullian
22
2
Tertullian's attack upon the heretics: His personal character
22
2
III. What Irenaeus and Tertullian have in common and what distinguishes them
24
3
How the Heresiologists Became Heretics, or, The Jewish Christians of Jerusalem in the First Two Centuries
27
34
Historical demarcations: The problem of continuity
27
3
The leading role of the kinsfolk of Jesus: The fate of the Jewish Christians
30
1
Part I: The Jewish Christians of Jerusalem before the Jewish War
31
21
The first institutionalizations and formation of parties
36
2
The historical development: From the beginnings to the Apostolic Council
38
6
The historical development (continued): From the Apostolic Council to the rejection of Paul's collection and the execution of James
44
5
The Jewish historian Josephus on the execution of James
49
3
Part II: The Jewish Christians of Jerusalem after the Jewish War
52
9
The report in Irenaeus
52
1
Justin's report
53
4
The Jewish Christianity of Jerusalem in the Pseudo-Clementines
57
4
The Only Heretic of the Earliest Period, or, A Human Paul
61
43
The sources
61
2
The pre-Christian Paul
63
11
The Damascus event
74
2
Chronology
76
2
The future of Christians
78
6
Paul the apostle to the Gentiles
84
2
Paul and women
86
3
Love, the greatest commandment
89
1
The short way to faith
90
1
Paul and his opponents
91
2
The Jewish Christian opposition
93
2
Paul and Israel
95
9
The polemic in I Thessalonians
95
2
The remarks about Israel in Romans 9--11
97
1
The first answer: Rom. 9.6--29
98
1
The second answer: Rom. 9.10--11.30
98
1
The third answer: Rom. 11.11--36
98
3
The relationship of the third answer in Rom. 9--11 to the first two answers, and to the answer in I Thess. 2.14--16
101
1
Hermeneutical reflections
102
2
Heresies over the Legacy of Paul
104
44
Paul in the Acts of the Apostles
104
1
False attributions of authorship in early Christianity
105
3
The fate of I Thessalonians in its `interpretation' by II Thessalonians
108
12
Excursus: Other cases of coping with the delay of the parousia in early Christianity
109
1
The relationship between I Thessalonians and II Thessalonians
110
3
An analysis of II Thess. 2.1--17
113
1
A special problem: The origin of the forged letter of Paul in II Thess. 2.2
114
6
Left-wing Paulinists (Colossians/Ephesians)
120
11
Colossians
122
4
Ephesians
126
5
The further development of Ephesians in the Letter to Rheginos
131
4
The Pastoral Epistles as sources for right-wing Paulinism
135
8
The Pastorals as pseudepigraphical letters
141
2
III Corinthians as an anti-Gnostic and anti-Marcionite writing
143
3
Summary and results of Chapter 5
146
2
The Arch-Heretic Marcion and His Time
148
22
The use of the Old Testament in the period before the emergence of Marcion
148
11
General
148
2
Individual interpretations of the Old Testament
150
2
The sayings of Jesus
152
3
The main perspectives of the use of the Old Testament
155
3
Results and criticism
158
1
The life and theology of Marcion
159
11
The Antitheses
162
2
Marcion's Bible
164
2
Marcion and the earliest Christian tradition
166
1
Marcion's influence
167
3
Heresies in the Johannine Writings
170
14
II and III John as the earliest accessible documents of the Johannine circle
170
14
II John
172
8
III John
180
4
The Origin of the Apostles' Creed
184
9
The first phase of the early Christian credal tradition
186
1
The second phase of the early Christian credal tradition
187
3
The relevance of the Apostles' Creed for today
190
3
The Origin of the New Testament Canon
193
16
The Old Testament as primal canon
195
1
The Lord, the apostles, the prophets and the Spirit
195
1
The four Gospels
195
1
The Acts of the Apostles
196
1
The letters of Paul (apart from the Pastorals)
197
4
The Pastoral Epistles
201
1
The Letter to the Hebrews
202
1
The Catholic Epistles
202
1
The Apocalypse of John
203
2
Result
205
1
Retrospect
206
3
The Christianity of the First Two Centuries, Jesus, and Ourselves
209
10
What Jesus wanted and did
210
3
The Jerusalem community and Jesus (on Chapter 3)
213
1
Paul (on Chapter 4)
214
1
The heirs of Paul (on Chapter 5)
214
1
Marcion (on Chapter 6)
214
1
The Johannine circle (on Chapter 7)
215
2
The Apostles' Creed (on Chapter 8)
217
1
The New Testament and the Old Testament as Holy Scripture (on Chapter 9)
217
2
Epilogue: Ten Golden Words
219
2
Appendixes:
221
8
1. Justin, Dialogue with the Jew Trypho, 46, 1--2; 47, 1--5
221
2
2. III Corinthians
223
2
3. The Letter to Rheginos from Nag Hammadi
225
4
Notes
229
93
Excursus on the State of Research
The reception of Walter Bauer's Orthodoxy and Heresy, notes 83--86
The Jewish Christians of Jerusalem, note 133
Paul, note 232
False information about authors in early Christianity, note 349
The Pastoral Epistles, note 458
III Corinthians, note 486
Marcion, note 513
The Johannine writings, note 563
The Apostles' Creed, note 622
The origin of the New Testament canon, note 650
Bibliography
322
7
Index of Authors
329
6
Subject Index
335