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→Gnostic Groups: Philip of Gortyn - defender of Christianity against Gnosticism
* and others
* and others
who, though they claim the name of Christ, are in reality "atheists, impious, unrighteous, and sinful, and confessors of Jesus in name only."<ref name="Carson"/>
who, though they claim the name of Christ, are in reality "atheists, impious, unrighteous, and sinful, and confessors of Jesus in name only."<ref name="Carson"/>
At the end of the second century AD (ca 170-190), Philip, a bishop of Gortyn, was a staunch defender of Christian church in [[Crete]] in the face of the early Church gnostic heresies incl. Marcionism and Montanism.<ref>{{cite book |title=History of Crete |author=Theocharēs Eustratiou Detorakēs |translator=John C. Davis |publisher=Mystis Editions |place=Iraklio, Crete |chapter=V.The Arrival of Christianity in Crete |pages=123 |edition= |isbn=978-618-5024-36-9 |url=https://books.google.sk/books?id=4xMMAQAAMAAJ}}</ref>
==Gnosticism Today==
==Gnosticism Today==