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Carpocratians and Curriculum: Irenaeus' Reply

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 June 2011

Robert M. Grant
Robert M. Grant
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The Divinity School, University of Chicago
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It seems suitable, when honoring a dean who has become a bishop, to write on an episcopal theologian who thought he could answer Gnostics by discussing curriculum. I doubt that in either office Krister Stendahl would ever have taken such a tack. It is odd to see Irenaeus doing so.

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Harvard Theological Review , Volume 79 , Issue 1-3: Christians Among Jews and Gentiles: Essays in Honor of Krister Stendahl on His Sixty-fifth Birthday , July 1986 , pp. 127 - 136
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Copyright © President and Fellows of Harvard College 1986

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