2nd-century Christianity

period of church history beginning with the ministry of Jesus (c. 27-30) and ending with the First Council of Nicaea (325)

thumb|Origen, Contra Celsum ([[Cambridge, 1676 edition)]]

Egyptian gnostic theologian (c.100–c. 160)

thumb|right The Alogi (), also called Alogoi or Alogians, were a group of heterodox Christians in Asia Minor that flourished c. 200 AD, and taught that the Gospel of John and the Apocalypse of John were not the work of the Apostle, but his adversary Cerinthus. What we know of them is derived from their doctrinal opponents, whose literature is extant, particularly Epiphanius of Salamis. It was Epiphanius who coined the name "Alogi" as a word play suggesting that they were both illogical and they were against the Christian doctrine of the Logos. While Epiphanius does not specifically indicate th

the collection of New Testament works traditionally attributed to John the Apostle or to a Johannine Christian community: the Gospel of John, the 1st–3rd Epistles of John, and the Book of Revelation

controversy over the correct date for Easter

treatise by Celsus criticising Christianity

period following the Apostolic Age to the First Council of Nicaea in 325

persecution of Christians in Lugdunum, Gaul (c.177)

ancient Christian community that supposedly authored the Johannine literature

overview about the authorship of the Johannine works

correspondence between Roman governor Pliny the Younger and Roman emperor Trajan