Hermogenes (heretic)
Hermogenes ( ancient Greek Ἑρμογένης ) was a teacher who probably lived at the turn of the 2nd to the 3rd century . Since none of his writings has survived, his life and teaching must be reconstructed from reports and mentions by other writers, early Christian apologists and church fathers .
Live and act
Theophilus of Antioch wrote a text against the heresy of Hermogenes. The early Christian writer Clement of Alexandria knew him and referred to him in his writings. Also, Tertullian wrote a Adversus Hermogenem . Influenced by Greek Platonism or Neo-Platonism , he took the view that matter is eternal and attributed evil to it. The fact of Hermogenes' Gnostic position remains controversial, and this is again being refrained from in the current church-historical discussion.
source
- Tertullian : Adversus Hermogenem (= Against Hermogenes) (translated by Karl Adam Heinrich Kellner ) [1]
literature
- Katharina Greschat : Apelles and Hermogenes. Two theological teachers of the second century (= Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae 48), Brill, Leiden 200
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christoph Markschies : Hermogenes. In Siegmar Döpp , Wilhelm Geerlings (ed.): Lexicon of ancient Christian literature. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau / New York 2002, ISBN 978-3-4512-7776-4 , p. 321.
- ↑ Katharina Bracht : Perfection and Perfection: to the Anthropology of Methodius of Olympus. Vol. 2. Studies and texts on antiquity and Christianity, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1999, ISBN 978-3-1614-7250-3 , p. 50.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hermogenes |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ἑρμογένης |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Gnostic teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd century |