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Bauer thesis
Also known as Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity
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Bauer (1934) argued that 'heresy' was often earlier than 'orthodoxy' in many regions; influential and much debated.
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Walter Bauer was a German theologian, lexicographer of New Testament Greek, and scholar of the development of Early Christianity.
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