Refutation of all Heresies
- Refutation of all Heresies
The "Refutation of All Heresies" is a compendious Christian polemical work of the early third century, now generally attributed to Hippolytus of Rome. Most of it was recovered in 1842 in a manuscript at Mount Athos, but the complete text is not known. It catalogues both pagan beliefs and 33 gnostic Christian systems deemed heretical, making it a major source of information on contemporary opponents of Catholic orthodoxy. [Kurt Rudolph, "'Gnosis: The Nature and History of Gnosticism" (1983 English transation), p. 13.]
It is known also as the "Philosophoumena" (philosophical teachings). The traditional attribution was to Origen.
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* [http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0501.htm Online text (English)]
* [http://www.geocities.com/astrologysources/roman/philosophumena/index.htm Philosophumena: Book iv - Hippolytus c 170 - 236 AD]
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