Early Christianity
Also, "Early Christian Church"
- this article will review the development of the Christian Church and Christian doctrine (orthodoxy)
- orthodoxy = "ortho" (true, straight, right ) + doxa (opinion, praise) = "right opinion
- heterodoxy = "hetero" (another, of the other) + dox = other opion
- note: the suffix -doxy comes from PIE root *dek- "to take, accept"
- heterodoxy is called here "heresy", which means "against accepted or established standards"
- heresy is from Greek hairesis for "taking for oneself"
Orthodoxy[edit | edit source]
Heresies[edit | edit source]
- Heresies came in general categories
Movement | Christ as God alone | Christ as Man alone | Christ as other | Notes |
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Adoptionism | Y | believed the Jesus the man was not God but God adopted him at his birth; his spirit was returned to God at the Resurrection and Ascension | ||
Doscetics | Y | N | Christ existed in spirit only | His physical presence was illusionary |
Gnostics | Y | Gnostics had "secret knowledge" from an unknown God | ||
Marcions | Christ was different from the Old Testament God | |||
Montanism | "New Prophesy" movement adhered to Christian orthodoxy but focused on prophesy and revelations from the Holy Spirit | |||