A bishop of Lyons who had listened, as a boy, to Polycarp — who had listened to John. His five books Against Heresies are the fullest account we have of what the second-century church believed and of the teachers it argued with. Modern English.
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Contents
Against Heresies, Book I
1The Thirty Aeons2Proof Texts and Achamoth’s Tears3The Demiurge and the Three Kinds4The King and the Fox5The Rule of Truth6Names Made to Order7Marcus the Magician8Marcus and the Alphabet9Truth Turned Into an Alphabet10Numbers and the Unknown Father11The Redemption and Simon Magus12Three Hundred Sixty-Five Heavens13Marcion, Tatian, and Barbelo14Ialdabaoth and the Serpent15The Gospel of Judas