the compiler of the monumental (in its English translation A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature or the Bauer Lexicon), which has become standard. was finally translated into English in 1970 and published in 1971. Since then, Bauer's view has gained prominence and grudging acceptance; events since the original 1934 publication date, such as the discovery of the Nag Hammadi library in 1945, have generally supported Bauer's thesis by showing a much broader and diverse range of Christianities than the classical view would have expected. Reception Bauer's translator, Robert A. Kraft, praised his sophisticated, nuanced writing style, which: An early critic of the Bauer thesis, Anglican theologian H. E. W. Turner in his Bampton Lectures, delivered at Oxford in 1954, said of Bauer, "His fatal weakness appears to be a persistent tendency to over-simplify problems, combined with the ruthless treatment of such evidence as fails to support his case. [...] Perhaps the root difficulty is that Bauer fails to attain an adequate view of the nature of orthodoxy. [...] For the nature of orthodoxy is richer and more varied than Bauer himself allows." A later book critiquing Bauer's thesis and the subsequent work Bart Erhman did espousing and expanding Bauer's thesis is The Heresy of Orthodoxy by Andreas J. Kostenberger and Michael Kruger, published in 2010, which addresses the thesis on the basis of historical, philosophical and theological argument. See also Christian heresy F. Wilbur Gingrich Bauer's Lexicon Proto-orthodox Christianity Notes References Walter, Bauer (2000). Danker, Frederick W. (ed.). A Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament and other early Christian literature (Third ed.). Chicago. . Retrieved 16 December 2021. Walter Bauer, 1971. Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity (Philadelphia: Fortress) (on-line: Updated Electronic English Edition by Robert A. Kraft, 1993). Bart D Ehrman, 2002. Lost Christianities: Christian Scriptures and the Battles over Authentication (Chantilly VA: The Teaching Company), Lesson 19, pg 28. Early criticism David L Hawkin, "Thirty Years Later: a retrospective on the significance of H. E. W. Turner's The Pattern of Christian Truth," in Churchman 99.1 (1985): 51-56. Walther Völker, "Walter Bauer's Rechtgläubigkeit und Ketzerei im ältesten Christentum", translated by Thomas P. Scheck in Journal of Early Christian Studies 14.4 (2006): 399-405. Originally published in Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte 54 (1935): 628–31. 1877 births 1960 deaths Scholars of Koine Greek German biblical scholars German Lutheran theologians Writers from Königsberg People from the Province of