- ἔλεγχος; Latin: Re****atio
Omnium Haeresium), also
called the
Elenchus or
Philosophumena, is a
compendious Christian polemical work of the
early third century...
- our
chief informants,
Irenaeus (Adversus Haereses) and
Hippolytus (
Philosophumena), are so
strongly divergent that they seem to many
quite irreconcilable...
-
quoted and
opposed in
connection with
Simon Magus by Irenaeus, by the
Philosophumena, and
later by
Epiphanius of Salamis.
Origen also
mentions that some...
-
Gnostic sect
known only
through the
accounts in the
books known as the
Philosophumena or the Re****ation of all
Heresies (which have been
attributed to Hippolytus...
- the most important. It was long
known and was
printed (with the
title Philosophumena)
among the
works of Origen.
Books II and III are lost, and
Books IV–X...
-
contemporaries and enemies,
Tertullian and
Hippolytus of Rome, the
author of
Philosophumena,
relate that Callixtus, as a
young slave from Rome, was put in charge...
-
emanationist in his
Adversus Haereses,
while Hippolytus painted him in his
Philosophumena as a
pantheistic evolutionist. From Irenaeus' perspective, Basilides...
- The Ophites, also
called Ophians (Gr**** Ὀφιανοί Ophianoi, from ὄφις
ophis "snake"), were a
Christian Gnostic sect
depicted by
Hippolytus of Rome (170–235)...
-
leading a
rival Christian congregation in Rome and that he
published the
Philosophumena, an
attack on Urban's predecessor,
Callixtus I.
Urban is said to have...
-
early as the Book of Revelation, took
their name from the deacon. In
Philosophumena,
Hippolytus writes he
inspired the sect
through his
indifference to...
