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Beyond gnosticism : myth, lifestyle, and society in the school of Valentinus /

Valentinus was a popular, influential, and controversial early Christian teacher. His school flourished in the second and third centuries C.E. Yet because his followers ascribed the creation of the visible world not to a supreme God but to an inferior and ignorant Creator-God, they were from early o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dunderberg, Ismo
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, 2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The school of Valentinus after gnosticism
  • Myth, lifestyle, and the world in the fragments of Valentinus
  • Immortality as a way of life
  • Adam's frank speech
  • Cosmic sympathy and the origin of evil
  • Valentinian cosmogony, lifestyle, and other Christians
  • Myth and lifestyle for beginners
  • Myth and the therapy of emotions
  • The Creator-God and the cosmos
  • Walk like a Valentinian
  • Two classes of Christians in practice
  • Myth, society, and non-Christians
  • Myth, power, and the oppressed church
  • Myth and ethnic boundaries
  • Valentinian secretiveness reconsidered
  • Appendix: Remarks on the sources of Irenaeus's and Hippolytus's accounts of Valentinian theology.