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Language: en
Pages: 360
Pages: 360
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-07-21 - Publisher: University of California Press
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
Language: en
Pages: 324
Pages: 324
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-04-16 - Publisher: Columbia University Press
Valentinus was a popular, influential, and controversial early Christian teacher. His school flourished in the second and third centuries C.E. Yet because his f
Language: en
Pages: 235
Pages: 235
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-09-23 - Publisher: Routledge
This book challenges the popular use of ‘Valentinian’ to describe a Christian school of thought in the second century CE by analysing documents ascribed to
Language: en
Pages: 385
Pages: 385
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: BRILL
Offering a fresh assessment of the presence and function of paraenesis within Valentinianism, this book places Valentinian moral exhortation within the context
Language: en
Pages: 566
Pages: 566
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: BRILL
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 re