Heretics: The Other Side of Early Christianity

From: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly | Date: July 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

GERD LUDEMANN, Heretics: The Other Side of Early Christianity (tr. John Bowden; Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1996). Pp. xvi + 335. $24.

This is the English translation of a revised and corrected edition of Gerd Lidemann's German work Ketzer: Die andere Seite des fruhen Christentums (Stuttgart: Radius, 1995). L. views it as "a critical examination" of holy Scripture and of "its authority" (p. xv), in particular, as an assessment of the consequences of the fact that the Bible "is the collection of the victorious party" (p. xvi) in early Christian debates.

This derives from L.'s interest ...

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