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Pauline Liberty at the Margins of Second-Century Christianity: The Carpocratians, Prodicians, and the Reconstruction of Heterodox Micro-Movements from Heresiological Sources

Grace, Daniel J.

This article examines the Carpocratians and the followers of Prodicus as heterodox micro-movements within second-century Christianity. Because neither community left a surviving body of literature in its own voice, their teachings must be reconstructed primarily from the hostile accounts of Irenaeus, Clement of…