North America on the question of heresy and orthodoxy. Bauer’s position was the credo of groups of scholars around Helmut Koester (Harvard University) and James M. Robinson (Claremont Graduate School/Institute for Antiquity and Christianity). It was above all thanks to the latter that in 1977 there first appeared a translation into modern English of all the documents found at Nag Hammadi. This finally presented original sources from the heretics who were expelled from the church in the second and
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