Ciało złe i dobre. Kwestia pochodzenia i natury ciała Adama i Chrystusa we wczesnochrześcijańskich ruchach heretyckich

• Authors: Mariusz Szram

Title variants

EN

Bad and good flesh. The issue of origin and nature of Adam and Christ’s body in early Christian heretic movements

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The article expounds on the groundwork laid by the first Latin treaty De haeresibus by Philastrius, the fourth-century bishop of Brescia, analyzed on the background of writings of Irenaeus, Tertullian and Origen, how the rooted in Gnosticism representatives of early Christian heresies (Carpocratians, Saturninus, Valentinus, Apelles, Marcion, Manicheans) have comprehended the genesis of man’s body. After a general delivery of early Christian doubts regarding the value of human flesh, different varieties of heretical paradox – ensuing from Platonic and Gnostic cosmo-anthropological tendencies – are presented. The paradox could be formulated in the following manner: human body of the first man Adam – and correspondingly all of his descendants – is genetically and ontologically evil as being an elementary constituent of the material world. Hence the flesh of a new Adam, i.e. Christ, must come form another realm and be free of the earthly materiality in order to be good by nature and worthy of Saviour’s person. The presented mode of thinking instigated the rise of theological misconceptions, in particular the eschatological ones denying human body the possibility of resurrec­tion and recognizing – in a Gnostic fashion – the liberation of man from flesh, not his salvation alongside his body.

Keywords

PL

antropologia; eschatologia; ciało; stworzenie; wcielenie; herezje; gnostycyzm; Filastriusz z Brescii; Tertulian; Ireneusz; Orygenes

EN

anthropology; eschatology; body; creation; incarnation; heresy; gnosticism; Filastrius of Brescia; Tertullian; Irenaeus; Origen

• Publisher: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
• Journal: Vox Patrum
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 63
• Pages: 77-93

Dates

published

2015-07-15

Contributors

author

Mariusz Szram

Identifiers

DOI

10.31743/vp.3550