contrast, the New Testa- ment gospels are known to have been set down c. 60-1 10).
Roughly 100 years after Christ's death, a broad schism developed among Christians between the orthodox (literally, "straight thinking")
In his five-volume De-struction and Overthrow of Falsely So-called Knowledge, St. Zrenaeus, Bishop ofLyon, led the Christian Church's 2nd- century fight against the gnostic cult, branded "an abyss of madness and blasphemy."
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