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Valentinian Christianity
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : University of California Press |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2020-07-21 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780520297463 |
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Valentinus, an Egyptian Christian who traveled to Rome to teach his unique brand of theology, and his followers, the Valentinians, formed one of the largest and most influential sects of Christianity in the second and third centuries. But by the fourth century, their writings had all but disappeared suddenly and mysteriously from the historical record, as the newly consolidated imperial Christian Church condemned as heretical all forms of what has come to be known as Gnosticism. Only in 1945 were their extensive original works finally rediscovered, and the resurrected “Gnostic Gospels” soon rooted themselves in both the scholarly and popular imagination. Valentinian Christianity: Texts and Translations brings together for the first time all the extant texts composed by Valentinus and his followers. With accessible introductions and fresh translations based on new transcriptions of the original Greek and Coptic manuscripts on facing pages, Geoffrey S. Smith provides an illuminating, balanced overview of Valentinian Christianity and its formative place in Christian history.
Valentinianism New Studies
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 522 |
Release | : 2019-10-07 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789004414815 |
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Valentinianism: New Studies offers fresh contributions by leading experts on the history of the Valentinian “Gnostic” church, on contested aspects of Valentinian doctrine, and on the use and interpretation of the New Testament by the Valentinians.
Beyond Gnosticism
Author | : Ismo Dunderberg |
Publsiher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780231141727 |
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Valentinus (100-160 C.E.) was an influential Gnostic opposed to the practices that would later become part of the Christian orthodoxy. This text covers Valentinus's interpretation of the biblical creation myth, in which he affirms mankind's original immortality and places a special emphasis on the 'frank speech' afforded to Adam by God.
The Spiritual Seed
Author | : Einar Thomassen |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 566 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789004148024 |
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This book is the first comprehensive study of the doctrines and history of "Valentinianism," making full use of the documents from Nag Hammadi as well as the reports of the Church Fathers.
Early Christianity in Alexandria
Author | : M. David Litwa |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2023-12-21 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781009449557 |
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Utilizing the Nag Hammadi codices and early Christian writings, this book explores the earliest development of Christianity in Alexandria.
Knowledge Faith and Early Christian Initiation
Author | : Alex Fogleman |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2023-10-19 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781009377423 |
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Presents a new history of the rise and development of catechesis in Latin Patristic Christianity that foregrounds core questions of knowledge, faith, and teaching. This book focuses on the critical relationship between teaching and epistemology
Valentinian Ethics and Paraenetic Discourse
Author | : Philip L. Tite |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789004175075 |
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Offering a fresh assessment of the presence and function of paraenesis within Valentinianism, this book places Valentinian moral exhortation within the context of early Christian moral discourse. Like other early Christians, Valentinians were not only interested in ethics, but used moral exhortation to discursively shape social identity. Building on the increasing recognition of ethical and communal concerns reflected in the Nag Hammadi sources, this book advances the discussion by elucidating the social rhetoric within, especially, the "Gospel of Truth" and the "Interpretation of Knowledge." The social function of paraenesis is to persuade an audience through social re-presentation. The authors of these texts discursively position their readers, and themselves, within engaging moments of narrativity. It is hoped that this study will encourage greater integration of research between those working on the Nag Hammadi material and those studying early Christian paraenetic discourse.
Christians at Rome in the First Two Centuries
Author | : Peter Lampe |
Publsiher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 550 |
Release | : 2006-06-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0826481027 |
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A groundbreaking work-broad in scope and closely detailed study of the true nature of early Chrsitanity in Rome. >