The Refutation of All Heresies
Authorship uncertain
Book 7 · Chapter 20
About this work
A large heresiological work tracing contested Christian teachings to Greek philosophy, mystery traditions, astrology, and magic, then setting them against the author’s account of apostolic truth.
- Author
- Authorship uncertain
- Traditional attribution
- Hippolytus of Rome
- Date
- Early 3rd century, probably c. AD 220s
- Origin
- Rome (traditional)
- Genre
- Heresiology
Traditional attribution to Hippolytus remains disputed, and the author is often called the Refutator.
Chapter XX.—The Heresy of Carpocrates; Wicked Doctrines Concerning Jesus Christ; Practise Magical Arts; Adopt a Metempsychosis.
Carpocrates affirms that the world and the