Beyond gnosticism : : myth, lifestyle, and society in the school of Valentinus / / Ismo Dunderberg.
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York : : Columbia University Press,, [2008] 2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (324 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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, society, 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.