TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dunderberg,Ismo
TI  - Beyond gnosticism: myth, lifestyle, and society in the school of Valentinus 
AV  - BT1475 .D86 2008eb
U1  - 273/.1 22
PY  - 2008///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Valentinus,
KW  - Valentinians
KW  - Gnosticism
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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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ER  -