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Forty Centuries of Christian Writing

1780 works catalogued century by century, from the literature the Bible was written among to the present — each with a note on what it is, why it lasted, and where to read it.

201–300

The Third Century

1 work

c. 200–250

Greek, surviving in Coptic

The Tripartite Tractate

Anonymous

The longest Valentinian text to survive, and the most systematic: a single Father rather than a pair, a fall caused by the Word's own excess of love rather than by Sophia's error, and a redemption in which even the material order is finally reconciled.

Valentinian · TreatiseJohnColossiansEphesians1 CorinthiansFull text