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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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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.