Early Church History 12
The Gates of Hell
Matthew 16: 18 And upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Council of Jerusalem: "decision by the Holy Spirit and by us."
doxia and praxis
Typho and Celsus, Stoics, Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot, Le Mâistre, Christopher Hitchens
Arius, Sabellius, syncrenists (Gnostics, Manichees, Cathars, Modernists)
Basilides, Isidore, Cerdo, Marcion, Valentinus, Montanus
Story of Pantera
Diaspora Jews
M. R. James, The Apocryphal New Testament, 1924
Johannes Quasten, Patrology I
Gospel of the Hebrews, Gospel of the Twelve Apostles, Gospel of Peter, Gospel of Nicodemus, Gospel of Thomas, Gospel of Philip, Gospel of Matthias, Gospel of Bartholomew, Gospel of Barnabas, Gospel of Judas Iscariot
Acts of Paul, of Peter, of John, of Peter and Paul, of Andrew, of Thomas, of Thaddeus
Marcion, Sinope in Pontus
Polycarp of Smyrna
Emperor Antoninus Pius
Antitheses
Cain and Esau saved but Abel, Enoch, Noah, David, Solomon remained in hell
Marcionites in Corinth, Crete, Antioch, Alexandria, Rome, Carthage, Lyons, Syria, Mesopotamia
Apelles and Philumene
Saints Justin Martyr and Irenaeus of Lyons and Tertullian