Epiphanius?Alogi and the Johannine Controversy ― A Reassessment of Early Ecclesial Opposition to the Johannine Corpus

During the final quarter of the fourth century, Epiphanius compiled a catalogue of heresies known as the Panarion, says Manor, and the 51st entry is the earliest mention of a certain group that explicitly rejected the Gospel and Apocalypse of John as works of arch-heretic Cerinthus. He calls them the Alogi. Taking this evidence as an opening, he asks again the familiar question of whether the early church once rejected the Johannine Corpus. He covers the "Johannine Controversy" theory, Epiphanius and the Alogi in context, and the sources of Epiphanius' account of the Alogi. Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

T. Scott Manor, Ph.D. (2012), University of Edinburgh, is Assistant Professor of Historical Theology and Vice President of Academic Affairs at Knox Theological Seminary. He has published various articles inVigiliae Christianae and Studia Patristica.