Monarchian Prologues
Home > Church Fathers > Monarchian Prologues Monarchian Prologues At a Glance Treatise Genre: (5/5) ***** Reliability of Dating: (5/5) ***** Length of Text: Greek Original Language: Ancient Translations: Modern Translations: English Estimated Range of Dating: 200-450 A.D. Chronological List of Early Christian Writings Discuss this text on the Early Writings forum. Text The Latin prologues: The anti-Marcionite and Monarchian prologues to the canonical gospels Offsite Links The Four Prologues: Their Text and Their Meaning The Anti-Marcionite Prologues Prologues to the Gospels: Mark The Latin Prologues of John (also in PDF) The Problem of the Fourth Gospel The Muratorian Fragment and the Development of the Canon Mark: Images of an Apostolic Interpreter Books Claudio Moreschini and Enrico Norelli, Early Christian Greek and Latin Literature, Vol.
1, p. 316 Johannes Quasten, Patrology (4 Volume Set), Vol. 2, pp. 146-147 Recommended Books for the Study of Early Christian Writings Information on Monarchian Prologues J. Quasten writes, "There is a series of longer prologues to the Gospels, the so-called Monarchian prologues, which used to be assigned to the first half of the third century. According to P. Corssen they were written at Rome about thirty years after the Muratorian Fragment in Monarchian circles. Their original language was Latin although they used Greek sources. Corssen held that they constituted another proof for the Monarchian character of the official Roman teaching at the date mentioned above. However, his idea of the Monarchian origin never seemed very convincing and was abandoned after J.
Chapman and E. Ch. Babut connected them rather with Spain. They are now thought to have been composed at the end of the fourth or beginning of the fifth century by some Priscillianist." (Patrology, vol. 2, p. 211) A. Sand writes, "Related to that group [of 'Anti-Marcionite prologues'] are the so-called Monarchianist prologues, which are usually attached to the gospels in the transmission of the Vulgate. They probably come from the end of the 4th c. and have their closest parallels in the ambiance of Priscillian or his movement." (Dictionary of Early Christian Literature, p. 502) Some Contemporary Texts Prayer of Thanksgiving (200-300 A.D.) Coptic Apocalypse of Peter (200-300 A.D.) Apostolic Church Order (200-330 A.D.) Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit (200-350 A.D.) Monarchian Prologues (200-450 A.D.) Acts of Perpetua and Felicitas (203 A.D.) Origen (203-250 A.D.) Lucian of Antioch (210-245 A.D.) Callistus (217-222 A.D.) Go to the Chronological List of all Early Christian Writings Please buy the CD to support the site, view it without ads, and get bonus stuff!
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