Beyond Gnosticism: Myth, Lifestyle, and Society in the School of Valentinus
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Main Author: Dunderberg, Ismo O. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Columbia University Press 2008
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Links:http://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.7312/dund14172
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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 on accused of heresy, and rumors were spread of their immorality and sorcery. Beyond Gnosticism suggests that scholars approach Valentinians as an early Christian group rather than as a representative of ancient "Gnosticism"-a term notoriously difficult to define. The study shows that Valentinian myt
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (653 p)
ISBN:9780231512596