c. 150–200
Greek
The Acts of John
Anonymous
Travel tales of the apostle John including a hymn danced in a circle before the passion, and a Christ whose body leaves no footprints and changes shape.
Contested · ActsRead elsewhere
101–200
The Second Century
1 work
201–300
The Third Century
2 works
c. 206
Latin
On the Flesh of Christ
De Carne Christi
Tertullian · c. 155–c. 220
Against Marcion and Valentinus, an insistence that Christ was born of a real woman with a real body — including the notorious argument that it is to be believed precisely because it is unfitting.
c. 200–250
Greek, surviving in Coptic
The Second Treatise of the Great Seth
Anonymous
Christ speaks in the first person and says that it was not he who died: another drank the gall and vinegar, another carried the cross on his shoulder, and he himself was above, laughing at their ignorance.