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1. Church Fathers

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   The early Church Fathers dedicated significant energy to defining orthodox boundaries against emerging heterodoxies. The Gnostics, with their dualistic cosmology and secret revelations, represented the most significant philosophical challenge to emerging proto-orthodox tradition.
   Irenaeus of Lyons, in his monumental work $Adversus Haereses$ (Against Heresies), systematically cataloged and refuted the cosmological models of groups such as the Valentinians and the [Sethians](/entr…