Semester Hours:3Periodically
This course explores the varieties of Christianity that co-existed from Jesus’
death in the middle of the first century through the end of the second century.
Included in these are Jewish-Christians, Marcionites, Montanists, and Gnostics.
Students will read a variety of primary texts in translation to understand better
the struggle between forms of early Christianity and the way that one form became
dominant and, thus, “orthodox.”