Beyond gnosticism
Subtitle: myth, lifestyle, and society in the school of Valentinus
By: Ismo  Dunderberg.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9780231141727; 9780231512596
Subjects: Valentinus, -- 2nd cent; Valentinians; Gnosticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-288) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The school of Valentinus after gnosticism; title: Myth, lifestyle, and the world in the fragments of Valentinus; title: Immortality as a way of life; title: Adam's frank speech; title: Cosmic sympathy and the origin of evil; title: Valentinian cosmogony, lifestyle, and other Christians; title: Myth and lifestyle for beginners; title: Myth and the therapy of emotions; title: The Creator-God and the cosmos; title: Walk like a Valentinian; title: Two classes of Christians in practice; title: Myth, society, and non-Christians; title: Myth, society, and the oppressed church; title: Myth and ethnic boundaries; title: Valentinian secretiveness reconsidered; title: Appendix: Remarks on the sources of Irenaeus's and Hippolytus's accounts of Valentinian theology.