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New York : Columbia University Press, [2008]

1 online resource (324 pages)

ISBN 9780231512596 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 9780231141727 (cloth : alk. paper)

Print version: Dunderberg, Ismo. Beyond gnosticism : myth, lifestyle, and society in the school of Valentinus. New York : Columbia University Press, [2008] xiv, 307 pages ; 24 cm ISBN 9780231141727

Includes bibliographical references (pages [273]-288) and indexes

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.

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(OCoLC)818855915