Bruno Bauer-heresy

Bruno Bauer insists that there was virtually no objectionable heresy at the time of the early church in the "Orthodoxy in Early Christianity" and heresy published in 1934. The view of the Roman church was called Orthodox, and another group that did not follow was called heresy. However, his claim has made some fatal errors. First, Bauer's claim that early Christianity was not a doctrinal understanding of the unity of the church was wrong. This is because the doctrinal understanding of Christian unity is already reflected in the writings of Roman Clement, Antioch Ignatius and Martyr Justin. Second, since it was relatively easy for communists to communicate with each other and maintain the network of the community, it was relatively easy for them to communicate easily within the Roman Empire. Third, Bauer insisted that the origin of Valentinism was Christianity different from that of the Orthodox. At the time, however, Valentinus, although a minority, recognized themselves as Orthodox Christians. Thus, heresy originates in the community of faith, not outside the church. Fourth, Bauer made the mistake of projecting the influence of the Roman Church in the future back into Christian communities of all ages where power or authority could not be found.​

It was after AD 3C that the Roman Church began to exert considerable influence on other churches of the time. Fifth, there is no historical basis for the fact that several heresies came before orthodox faith. In conclusion, Bauer's argument reflects the narrow ideology that heresy is open, relaxed, and sexually neutral, and that authenticity is narrow, assertive, patriarchal, and rigid. It stands for the underprivileged, and destroys the value of orthodoxy by considering the value of orthodox tradition as a product of the power of the ruler. Bauer's argument seems quite reasonable from a modern postmodernist point of view that denies tradition and true truth, and can be used as a faithful tool for them. Heresy is not a victim of some kind of theological oppression. Clearly, in the history of establishing orthodoxy, power and political struggle were not without it. However, at least the orthodox creed of the evangelical faith we are now trying to keep is the grace given to us by some established process and the labor and sacrifice of the Lord's true servants.