DE RECTA IN DEUM FIDE. – Latin translation by Rufinus of the work of Pseudo-Origen or Adamantius. The Greek text, written around 300 in Syria, was authored by a contemporary of Methodius, whose works, as well as those of other Fathers (Irenaeus), are here utilized. It is a discussion with the followers of Marcion, Bardesanes, and Valentinus. The original title of the book is unknown.
BIBL.: Critical edition of the Greek text and the Latin translation: W. H. van de Sande Bakhuysen, Der Dialog des Adamantius
Περὶ τῆς εἰς θεῶν ὀρδῆς πίστεως, Leipzig 1901. Th. Zahn, Die Dialoge des « Adamantius » mit den Onosthern in Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte, 9 (1888), pp. 193–239; id., Geschichte des neutestamentlichen Kanons, II, II, Leipzig 1892, pp. 419–26. Partly against Zahn and Ad. Harnack, Marcion, 2nd ed., Leipzig 1924, pp. 56 ff., 181 ff., 344 ff. Erik Peterson