The Spiritual Seed: The Church of the "Valentinians"BRILL, 2006 - 545 pagini This book is a comprehensive study of Valentinianism, the most important Gnostic Christian movement in Antiquity. It is the first attempt to make full use of the Valentinian documents from Nag Hammadi as well as the reports of the Church Fathers. The book discusses the difference between the Eastern and the Western branches of Valentinianism, and argues that individual sources must always be understood in the context of the historical development of Valentinian doctrines. It also analyses the ideas about the incarnation, protological theories, and initiation practice, as well as the dynamic relationship between these building-blocks of Valentinian doctrine. A final chapter studies anew the doctrine of Valentinus himself and outlines the history of the movement. The book s usefulness lies in its attempt to bring together for the first time all the sources so as to construct a coherent picture of Valentinian Christianity. This volume is also available as paperback, see http://www.brill.nl/default.aspx?partid=227&pid=30585 |
Cuprins
Introduction | 1 |
PART I | 2 |
VALENTINIANISM EAST AND WEST | 7 |
Valentinus in Iren Haer I 111 | 23 |
13 | 29 |
15 | 31 |
17 | 34 |
20 | 37 |
Salvation in history and ritual | 133 |
Salvation in history and protological | 146 |
46 | 149 |
47 | 151 |
50 | 161 |
Protology salvation history and ritual | 166 |
Conclusion to Part II | 188 |
52 | 229 |
22 | 47 |
23 | 49 |
28 | 52 |
30 | 57 |
The soteriology of Irenaeus system | 59 |
34 | 63 |
37 | 67 |
The soteriology of Iren Haer I 72 | 73 |
Provisional conclusions | 81 |
Eastern soteriologies The Gospel of Philip | 90 |
The soteriology of Heracleon | 103 |
39 | 108 |
40 | 110 |
41 | 115 |
The position of Ptolemy | 119 |
43 | 123 |
The myth of separation | 248 |
Chronology of the protologies | 263 |
The meaning and origins | 269 |
The transformation of eschatology | 315 |
The evidence for Valentinian | 333 |
Initiation Synopsis of the acts | 386 |
The ideology of the initiation | 395 |
The historical position | 398 |
A ritual for the dying | 406 |
Valentinus biography and sources | 417 |
Valentinus a study of the fragments | 430 |
Valentinians fragments of | 491 |
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521 | |
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