Word: epiphanius
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...Gospel of Judas was a critical pan. In A.D. 180 the church father Irenaeus ascribed a work of that title to a group of contrarian believers who were called Cainites because they admired the first murderer, whom they saw as cursed by a cruel God. The 4th century bishop Epiphanius also attacked the text--after which it disappeared from record. "Because it was naughty," says James Robinson, an early-Christianity expert writing a book called The Secrets of Judas, "the orthodox church suppressed it, and it was buried somewhere...
...told Hebrew University Philosopher Shlomo Pines about it. Pines, also an expert on early Christian history, concluded that the text accurately reflected the primitive faith of the Nazarenes, whose doctrines had previously been known through polemics against them by such orthodox theologians of the early church as Jerome and Epiphanius...
...catacombs, hunted and persecuted Christians scrawled pictures of the Virgin on the walls (150 A. D.,); it began truly to flourish in the Eastern Church about the 6th Century A. D.?? But it met with continued rebuke, as when the Collyridians were denounced by St. Epiphanius for making sacrificial offerings of cakes to Mary. He said: "Let Mary be held in honor. Let the Father, Son and Holy Ghost be adored, but let no one adore Mary." From 500 A. D. on she appeared increasingly in Christian art; many cathedrals were erected under her dedication...
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