Editing Heraclitus (section)

==== Early Christianity ====
[[File:John 1.jpg|thumb|right|200px|John 1:1 in the page showing the first chapter of [[Gospel of John|John]] in the [[King James Version|King James Bible]]]]
[[Hippolytus of Rome]], one of the early [[Church Fathers]] of the [[Christian Church]], identified Heraclitus along with the other pre-Socratics and [[Platonic Academy|Academics]] as a source of [[heresy]], in Heraclitus's case namely the heresy of [[Noetus]].{{sfn|Kirk|1954|p=349}} 

The Christian apologist [[Justin Martyr]] took a more positive view of Heraclitus.{{sfn|Goodenough|1923|page=110}} In his [[First Apology]], he said both Socrates and Heraclitus were Christians before Christ: "those who lived reasonably are Christians, even though they have been thought atheists; as, among the Greeks, Socrates and Heraclitus, and men like them."<ref>First Apology, Chapter 46</ref> He was among those who interpreted the ''logos'' as meaning the Christian "Word of [[God]]", such as in [[John 1:1]]: "In the beginning was the Word (''[[Logos (Christianity)|logos]]'') and the Word was God."<ref>History of Philosophy, by Friedrich Ueberweg, p. 293</ref>  

Modern scholars such as John Burnet have viewed the relationship between Heraclitean ''logos'' and Johannine ''logos'' as fallacious, saying; "the Johannine doctrine of the ''logos'' has nothing to do with Herakleitos or with anything at all in Greek philosophy, but comes from the Hebrew Wisdom literature".{{sfn|Burnet|1892|p=133}}

The Christian Clement of Alexandria notes Heraclitus's similarity to the Christian prophets, and is cited as a source for more Heraclitus fragments than any other author.<ref>Dinan, Andrew. "Clement of Alexandria's Predication of the Verb μαντευομαι of Heraclitus." ''Journal of Early Christian Studies'', vol. 16 no. 1, 2008, pp. 31–60. ''Project MUSE'', {{doi|10.1353/earl.2008.0004}}.</ref><ref>Andrew C. Dinan ''Fragments in Context: Clement of Alexandria's Use of Quotations from Heraclitus (Philo of Alexandria, Plutarch, Greece)'' 2005. DAI-A 65/11 (May 2005), p. 4184.</ref>