The Pattern of Christian Truth

A Study in the Relations between Orthodoxy and Heresy in the Early Church

• Author(s): H. E. W. Turner,
• Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
• Pages: 524
• ISBN_10: 1725212706
  ISBN_13: 9781725212701
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Religion / Christian Church / General , Religion / Christianity / Denominations , Religion / Christian Theology / General ,

Description:... Walter Bauer's 'Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity' created a stir with its argument that the teachings later condemned as heresy, in the later second century onward, were, in fact, dominant in the earliest decades of the church. This full-scale response by H. E. W. Turner has not enjoyed the attention it deserves. Turner's volume represents a learned and sophisticated restatement of the traditional view: what became official orthodoxy was taught early on by the majority of church teachers, albeit not in fully developed form.