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Book or monograph Derek Baker, ed. Schism, Heresy and Religious Protest. Studies in Church History 9. Papers read at the tenth Summer meeting and the eleventh winter meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972. ISBN: 0521084865. pp. xv + 404.
Book or monograph Walter Bauer, Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1971. Pbk. ISBN: 0800613635. pp.334.
Article in Journal or Book Hans Dieter Betz, "Orthodoxy and Heresy in Primitive Christianity: Some critical remarks on Georg Strecker's republication of Walter Bauer's Rechtgläubigkeit and ketzerei im altesten Christentum," Interpretation 19 (1965): 299-311.
Article in Journal or Book Craig L. Blomberg, "The New Testament definition of heresy (or when do Jesus and the apostles really get mad?)," Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 45.1 (March 2002): 59-72.View in PDF format pdf
Book or monograph Brown: Heresies: Heresy and Orthodoxy in the History of the ChurchHarold O. J. Brown, Heresies: Heresy and Orthodoxy in the History of the Church. Hendrickson Publishers, 1998. Hbk. ISBN: 1565633652. pp.512. {CBD}
Book or monograph David Christie-Murray, A History of Heresy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989. Pbk. ISBN: 0192852108. pp.252.
Article in Journal or Book Martin Connell, "Heresy and Heortology in the Early Church: Arianism and the Emergence of the Triduum," Worship 72. 2 (March 1998): 117–140.
Article in Journal or Book Arnold Ehrhardt, "Christianity Before the Apostle's Creed," Harvard Theological Review 55 (1962): 73-119.
Book or monograph Evans: A Brief History of HeresyGillian R. Evans, A Brief History of Heresy. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2003. Hbk. ISBN: 0631235264. pp.195.
Book or monograph W.H.C. Frend, The Rise of the Monophysite Movement. Chapters in the History of the Church in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972. Hbk. ISBN: 0521081300. pp. xxi + 405.
Book or monograph W.H.C. Frend, Saints and Sinners in the Early Church: DIffering and Conflicting Traditions in the First Six Centuries. Walter and Mary Tuohy Lectures 1981. London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 1985. Pbk. ISBN: 0814654517. pp.183.
Book or monograph W.H.C. Frend, Orthodoxy, Paganism and Dissent in the Early Christian Centuries. Variorum Collected Studies. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002. Hbk. ISBN: 0860788946. pp.352.
Book or monograph Grant: Heresy and CriticismRobert McQueen Grant, Heresy and Criticism: The Search for Authenticity in Early Christian Literature. Westminster John Knox Press, 1993. Pbk. ISBN: 0664221688. pp.192.
Book or monograph Stanley Lawrence Greenslade, Schism in the Early Church, 2nd edn. London: SCM Press, 1964. Hbk. ISBN: 0404623840. pp. xxii + 253.
Article in Journal or Book Daniel J. Harrington, "The Reception of Walter Bauer's Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earlist Christianity During the the Last Decade," Harvard Theological Review 73 (1980): 289-98.
Article in Journal or Book David J, Hawkin, "A Reflective Look at the Recent Debate on Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity," Eglise et Theologie 7 (1976): 367-78.
Article in Journal or Book Patrick Henry, "Why Is Contemporary Scholarship So Enamored of Ancient Heresies?" E.A. Livingstone, ed. Proceedings of the 8th International Confeence on Patristic Studies. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1980. pp. 123-126.
Article in Journal or Book A.J.C. Heron, "The Interpretation of I Clement in Wlater Bauer's 'Rechtglaubigkeit und Ketzerei im ältesten Christendum," Ekklesiastokos Pharos 55 (1973): 517-545.
Book or monograph The Earliest Christian HereticsArland J. Hultgren & Steven A. Haggmark, eds. The Earliest Christian Heretics: Reading from their Opponents. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Fortress, 1996. Pbk. ISBN: 0800629639. pp.199.
Book or monograph G. Lüdemann, Heretics: The Other Side of Early Christianity. London: SCM Press, 1996. Pbk. ISBN: 0334026164. pp.320.
Article in Journal or Book Helmut Koester, "GNOMAI DIAPHOROI: The Origin and Nature of Diversification in the History of Early Christianity," Harvard Theological Review 58 (1965): 279-318.
Article in Journal or Book Robert A. Kraft, "The Development of the Concept of 'Orthodoxy' in Early Christianity," Gerald F. Hawthorne, ed. Current Issues in Biblical and Patristic Interpretation. Studies in Honor of Merril C. Tenney. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1975. pp.47-59.
Article in Journal or Book J.A. McGuckin, "The Concept of Orthodoxy in Ancient Christianity," Patristic and Byzantine Review 8.1 (1989): 5-23.
Article in Journal or Book H.O. Maier, "The Topography of Heresy and Dissent in Late-Fourth Century Rome," Historia 44 (1995): 232-49.
Article in Journal or Book H.O. Maier, "Religous Dissent, Heresy and Households in Late Antiquity," Vigiliae Christianae 49 (1995): 49-63.
Book or monograph Antti Marjanen & Petri Luomanen, eds., A Companion to Second-Century Christian Heretics the Other Side. Vigiliae Christianae Supplements Series 76. Leiden: Brill, 2005. Hbk. ISBN: 9004144641. pp. xvi + 400.
On-line Resource I. Howard Marshall, "Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity," Themelios 2 (1976): 5-14.
Article in Journal or Book Brice L.Martin, "Some reflections of the unity of the New Testament," Studies in Religion 8 (1979): 143-52.
Article in Journal or Book Frederick W. Norris, "Ignatius, Polycarp, and I Clement: Walter Bauer Reconsidered," Vigiliae Christianae 30 (1976): 23-44.
Article in Journal or Book Frederick W. Norris, "Asia Minor before Ignatius: Walter Bauer Reconsidered," Elizabeth A. Livingstone, ed. Studia Evangelica, Vol 7. Papers presented to the Fifth International Congress in Biblical Studies (1973). pp.365-77.
Book or monograph G.L. Prestige, Fathers and Heretics. Six Studies in Dogmatic Faith with Prologue and Epilogue. The Bampton Lectures 1940. London: SPCK, 1958. pp. vii + 211.
Book or monograph Colin H. Roberts, Manuscript, Society, and Belief in Early Christian Egypt. The Schweich Lectures of the British Academy for 1977. London: Oxford University Press, 1979. pp. x + 89.
Book or monograph James M. Robinson & Helmut Koester, Trajectories through Early Christainity. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1971. pp.297.
Book or monograph Thomas A. Robinson, The Bauer Thesis Examined: The Geography of Heresy in the Early Christian Church. Studies in the Bible and Early Christianity 11. Lewiston / Queenston: Edwin Mellen, 1988. pp. xi + 248.
Book or monograph E.P. Sanders, et al, Jewish and Christian Self-Definition, 3 Vols. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1980-1982.
Article in Journal or Book Marcel Simon, "From Greek Hairesis to Christian Heresy," William R. Schoedel & Robert L. Wilekn, eds. Early Christian Literature and the Classical Intellectual Tradition. In Honorem Robert M. Grant. Theologie historique 53. Paris: Beauchesne, 1979. pp.101-116.
Book or monograph H.W. Turner, The Pattern of Christian Truth. London: Mowbray, 1954. pp. xvi + 508.
Book or monograph Rowan Williams, ed. The Making of Orthodoxy. Essays in Honour of Henry Chadwick. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. pp. xxv + 340.
Article in Journal or Book Nag Hammadi, Gnosticism, and Early ChristianityFrederik Wisse, "The Use of Early Christian Literature as Evidence for Inner Diversity and Conflict," Charles W. Hedrick & Robert Hodgson, Jr., eds. Nag Hammadi, Gnosticism, and Early Christianity. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 1980. Reprinted Eugene< OR: Wipf & Stock, 2005. Pbk. ISBN: 1597524026. pp.177-90.

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