This paper is part of a larger project inquiring into the nature of
the authority enjoyed for several centuries by early Christian texts
which eventually were not included in the New Testament. The aim of the
paper is to offer an assessment of the use of the works circulating
under the name of Peter (the Gospel, the Acts, the Apocalypse, and also
the canonical letters) in the works of the three Patristic authors in
the title. Notoriously, Eusebius explicitly bases his own classification
of Christian texts on the classification he finds in Origen’s works and
he also offers an account of Clement’s take on the authority of several
non-NT texts. Although the there is a vast literature on the (formation
of the) New Testament canon, and also an important one devoted to the
apocryphal literature, there is still the need assess the authority of
such 'marginal' texts in early Patristic authors and to compare it with
the perhaps 'marginal' texts of the New Testament. This paper does just
that, on a a small sample of texts, the 'Petrine corpus'.
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