What a Saint! - Epiphanius of Salamis

Welcome to this mornings episode of "What a Saint!"

This early Christian Bishop was celebrated as a champion of orthodoxy, "Epiphanius of Salamis" could be considered to the modern mind as an early architect of Intolerance in the sense that he embodied and institutionalized a rigid boundary between “orthodoxy” and “heresy”, with little tolerance for theological diversity.

Epiphanius’ major work, the Panarion (literally “Medicine Chest”), was not just a catalog of heresies—it was a manual for spiritual warfare against them. He intended it to be a remedy for the "poison" of heresy, urging bishops and believers to:

Name, shame, and refute alternative doctrines.

See "heretics" as spiritual threats rather than fellow seekers.

This went far beyond disagreement—it was the demonization of opponents - Sound fami-LIAR?

Ironically, Epiphanius preserved otherwise-lost Gnostic texts by quoting them in order to refute them—like some passages of the Gospel of Eve, or Valentinian ideas. Without him, we would know far less about those movements.

Oh the "Humanity"