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Cerinthus ((ギリシア語:Κήρινθος)) — (c. 100 CE) was a gnostic and to some, an early Christian, who was prominent as a heresiarch in the view of the early Church Fathers.〔See, in particular, Irenaeus, ''Adversus haereses'', Book I, III and relative External links〕 Contrary to proto-orthodox Christianity, Cerinthus's school followed the Jewish law, used the Gospel of Cerinthus, denied that the Supreme God had made the physical world, and denied the divinity of Jesus. In Cerinthus' interpretation, the Christ came to Jesus at baptism, guided him in his ministry, but left him at the crucifixion.〔 He taught that Jesus would establish a thousand-year reign of sensuous pleasure after the Second Coming but before the General Resurrection, a view that was declared heretical by the Council of Nicaea. Cerinthus used a version of the gospel of Matthew as scripture. Cerinthus taught at a time when Christianity's relation to Judaism and to Greek philosophy had not yet been clearly defined. In his association with the Jewish law and his modest assessment of Jesus, he was similar to the Ebionites and to other Jewish Christians. In defining the world's creator as the demiurge, he emulated Platonic philosophy and anticipated the Gnostics. Early Christian tradition describes Cerinthus as a contemporary to and opponent of John the Evangelist, who may have written the First Epistle of John and the Second Epistle of John to warn the less mature in faith and doctrine about the changes Cerinthus was making to the original gospel.〔Irenaeus, Adversus Haereses, Book III, Chapter 11, Verse 1〕〔The First Epistle of John, Chapter 2, verses 18-19, Chapter 4 verse 3〕 All that is known about Cerinthus comes from the writing of his theological opponents. ==Biography== The date of his birth and his death are unknown. In the Asia (Roman province) he founded a school and gathered disciples. None of Cerinthus' actual writings seem to have survived, and it is unlikely that any were ever very widely disseminated. Our most detailed understanding of the man Cerinthus' teachings are from the 4th century Epiphanius of Salamis, onwards, a good few centuries after his death and therefore we do not have a clear understanding of his teachings. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cerinthus」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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