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At 12:22 15/11/99 EST, you wrote: >In a message dated 99-11-15 11:14:25 EST, you write: > ><< "Gnosticism" (and Marcionism) > >I think one could say that Gnosticism was a perennial strain upon >Christianity from about the year 100 until the Arab conquest of the east >(roughly 650), and was the fountainhead of most of the christological >conundrums. Thus, the full implication of your following statement: I do wonder to what extent Gnosticism is really an issue after, say, the third century. Granted, the individual Gnostic writers are the subject of particular attacks from the 'orthodox'. The text I know most closely in this regard is Theodoret's late Compendium. But my impression is that their views were not live: they had become standard objects of attack, whom it was convenient to bring into the argument to blacken further the position of the real objects of concern, i.e. Arians, Monophysites, Nestorians, etc.,. Manichees, and to a lesser extent Marcionites, on the other hand remained an abiding problem in both east and west. Ian Tompkins Ian G Tompkins, MA, BD, DPhil Administrative Assistant Academic Registrar's Office ~~~~~~~~ Warden Neuadd Penbryn - Penbryn Hall ~~~~~~~~ Prifysgol Cymru - The University of Wales Aberystwyth ~~~~~~~~ Email: [log in to unmask] Tel: (01970-62)2047(day); 2900(eve) Web: http://www.aber.ac.uk/~igt %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%