Editing Christian views on magic (section)

==Early Paulian Christianity==
{{See also|Early Christianity}}

The [[Paul the Apostle|Apostle Paul]]'s [[Epistle to the Galatians]] includes sorcery in a list of "works of the flesh".<ref>{{bibleref2|Galatians|5:19-21}}</ref> This disapproval is echoed in the ''[[Didache]]'',<ref name=Didache>{{cite book|title=Teaching of the twelve Apostles, tr. from the 'editio princeps' of Bryennios, by A. Gordon|year=1884|page=7|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Sp8CAAAAQAAJ|author=Apostles didachē|access-date=20 October 2013|format=Original from Oxford University}}</ref> a very early book of church discipline which dates from the mid-late first century.<ref>Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (Oxford University Press {{ISBN|978-0-19-280290-3}}): ''Didache''</ref>