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| adam_text | CONTENTS
Abbreviations
.............................................................................. xv
Introduction
................................................................................ 1
PART I
VALENTINIANISM EAST AND WEST
Chapter One: The Valentinians of Irenaeus
........................ 9
The structure of Book I
........................................................ 11
Inconsistencies in the presentation of the Valentinians
.... 13
The two meanings of the Valentinians
........................ 13
Unity and diversity of the Valentinians
...................... 15
The Valentinians and the Ptolemaeans
.................... 17
The conflicting reports on the Ptolemaeans
................ 20
Conclusions
............................................................................ 22
Chapter Two: Valentinus in
Iren.
Haer. I
11:1 ................ 23
Chapter Three: The doctrine of Theodotus
........................ 28
The spiritual body of the Saviour
........................................ 30
The Saviour himself needed redemption
............................ 31
Christ as Sophia s son
.......................................................... 34
The suffering of the deity
(?) ................................................ 37
Chapter Four: The two schools
.......................................... 39
Tertullian s testimony
............................................................ 39
Hippolytus testimony
............................................................ 40
Valentinus on the Saviour s body
........................................ 41
What is the Saviour s body?
................................................ 41
The inaccuracy of Hippolytus
.............................................. 43
Chapter Five: The soteriology of The Tripartite Tractate
........ 46
The incarnation
...................................................................... 47
The heavenly and the earthly church
.................................. 50
The dialectics of mutual participation
................................ 52
Conclusion
.............................................................................. 57
VI
CONTENTS
Chapter Six: The soteriology of Irenaeus system
................ 59
Chapter Seven: The soteriology of Exc.
43:2—65 ................ 62
The advent of the Saviour and the composition of
his body
.............................................................................. 62
Inconsistencies in the soteriological status of the
spirituals
.............................................................................. 64
Explanation of these inconsistencies
.................................... 68
Chapter Eight: The soteriology of
Iren.
Haer. I
7:2 ............ 73
Chapter Nine: The soteriology of Hipp. Haer. VI
29-36 .. 77
Chapter Ten: Provisional conclusions
.................................... 81
Chapter Eleven: Eastern soteriologies: The Treatise on
Resurrection
................................................................................ 83
Chapter Twelve: Eastern soteriologies: The Interpretation of
Knowledge
.................................................................................. 86
Chapter Thirteen: Eastern soteriologies: The Gospel of Philip
90
The conception and composition of the Saviour
................ 90
The ritual context of the generation of the Saviour s
body
.................................................................................... 93
Conclusion
.............................................................................. 102
Chapter Fourteen: The soteriology of Heracleon
................ 103
Heracleon s commentary on John
2:12—22 ........................ 104
The descent into matter
........................................................ 108
The Saviour came to redeem the spirituals
........................ 112
The absence of a pre-existent church as the body of the
Saviour
................................................................................ 115
The position of Heracleon
.................................................... 118
Chapter Fifteen: The position of Ptolemy
............................ 119
The Letter to Flora
.................................................................. 119
The position of the Demiurge
.............................................. 120
Ptolemy s system
.................................................................... 121
CONTENTS
Vil
The Saviour as demiurge
.................................................. 122
A psychic Christ?
.............................................................. 124
A soteriology of mutual participation?
............................ 127
Conclusion
.............................................................................. 128
PART II
THE THREE DIMENSIONS OF VALENTINIANISM
Chapter Sixteen: Salvation in history and ritual
.................. 133
The soteriological contrast pattern
...................................... 134
The parallelism of salvation history and baptism
.............. 135
The Saviour as agent and model of salvation
.................... 137
Event and symbol
.............................................................. 138
Result
1:
Ambiguity in the narrative
.............................. 139
Result
2:
Ambiguity in the ritual
.................................... 140
Resolving the ambiguities: The power of the Name
...... 141
The saved Saviour
................................................................ 143
Chapter Seventeen: Salvation in history and protological
myth
........................................................................................ 146
The Gospel of Truth
.................................................................. 146
History and protology
............................................................ 148
The revelation of the book of names
.................................. 150
The function of the Saviour
................................................ 152
From history to protology
.................................................... 155
The protological mediator
.................................................... 158
The unity and difference of Father, Son, and aeons
........ 161
Concluding remarks
.............................................................. 163
Chapter Eighteen: Protology, salvation history, and ritual
.. 166
The Tripartite Tractate
.............................................................. 166
Protology and the fall
........................................................ 166
The origins of matter and soul
........................................ 167
The origin of the spiritual church
.................................... 167
Cosmogony
........................................................................ 167
Anthropogony and human history
.................................. 168
The incarnation
.................................................................. 169
Eschatology
........................................................................ 169
Vlil
CONTENTS
History and ritual
.................................................................. 169
The Saviour as agent and model of salvation
................ 169
From the redeeming and redeemed Saviour, to the
redeeming and redeemed church
................................ 172
A shifted focus
.................................................................... 177
Protology and ritual
.............................................................. 178
Protology, salvation history, ritual
........................................ 182
Protology as salvation history
............................................ 182
Protology and restoration: Conflicting soteriologies
........ 184
Protology and incarnation
................................................ 186
Chapter Nineteen: Conclusion to Part II
.............................. 188
PART III
VALENTINIAN PROTOLOGY
Chapter Twenty: The pleromatology
.................................... 193
The two main types
.............................................................. 193
Iren.
Haer. I
1-3 .................................................................... 195
From Father and Son to Tetrad
...................................... 196
The deferral of duality
...................................................... 198
The rupture
........................................................................ 198
Hipp. Haer. VI
29:2 30:5 ...................................................... 200
Iren.
Haer. I
11:1 .................................................................. 204
Iren.
Haer. I
11:2 .................................................................. 205
Iren.
Haer. I
11:3 .................................................................. 206
Iren.
Haer. I
11:5 .................................................................. 207
Iren.
Haer. I
12:1 .................................................................. 208
Iren.
Haer. I
12:3 .................................................................. 209
Exc.
6-7:3 ................................................................................ 211
Iren.
Haer. I
8:5 .................................................................... 213
Epiph. Pan.
XXXI 5-6 ........................................................ 218
The epistolary introduction
.............................................. 218
First principles: A redacted text
...................................... 219
The generation of the Ogdoad
........................................ 222
The Duodecad and the
Decad
........................................ 224
A self-contained protology
................................................ 227
A Valentiman
Exposition
............................................................ 231
The structure of the Pleroma
.......................................... 231
CONTENTS
IX
First principles
.................................................................... 233
The generation of the Son
.............................................. 234
A second version of the protology
.................................. 235
Combination of the two versions
.................................... 236
The Limit
.......................................................................... 238
A discrepancy in the protological account
...................... 240
Iren.
Haer. I
14
(The
Sige
of Marcus)
.................................. 241
Being as text
...................................................................... 241
The plurality in the Name
................................................ 244
Chapter Twenty-One: The myth of separation and
restoration
.............................................................................. 248
Systems with one Sophia
.................................<-.................... 248
The Tripartite Tractate
.......................................................... 248
Iren.
Haer. I
11:1 .............................................................. 251
Exc.
23:2, 32-33
(Theodotus)
............................................ 253
A Valentinian Exposition
........................................................ 255
Systems with two Sophias
.................................................... 257
The two Sophias
................................................................ 257
Sophia and Christ
.............................................................. 258
The
%
of Marcus
............................................................ 261
Chapter Twenty-Two: Chronology of the protologies
........ 263
The priority of type A over type
В
.................................... 263
Type
В
systems with one Sophia
........................................ 266
Chapter Twenty-Three: The meaning and origins of
Valentinian protology
............................................................ 269
Valentinian protology as Neopythagorean physics
.............. 270
Moderatus
and Irenaeus system on the origin of
matter
.............................................................................. 271
Extension, spreading out, withdrawal, and
division
........................................................................ 275
The Limit
.......................................................................... 279
Audacity, otherness, movement, independence
283
Passion
............................................................................ 288
The origins of the type A protology
.................................... 291
Attestations of the model
.................................................. 292
A Neopythagorean source?
................................................ 293
Affinities with The Chaldean Oracles and later
Neoplatonism
.................................................................. 295
X
GONTENXS
Relation to the
Neoplatonic
system of triads
.................. 298
The embryological model
...................................................... 307
The formation of the Entirety in the Father s womb
.... 307
The background in ancient embryology
.......................... 309
The theory of embryonic formation in other
Valentinian documents
.................................................. 312
Protology and Soteriology
................................................ 313
Chapter Twenty-Four: The transformation of eschatology
to protology
............................................................................ 315
The manifestation of the saints
............................................ 315
The disclosure of the spirituals in the world
.................. 316
The manifestation from above
...................................... 320
The manifestation of the Valentinian
εκκλησία
.............. 323
The union with the angels
................................................ 325
From eschatological to protological manifestation, and
their ritual
actualisation
.................................................... 326
PART IV
VALENTINIAN INITIATION
Chapter Twenty-Five: The evidence for Valentinian
initiation
.................................................................................. 333
Exc.
66-86 .............................................................................. 333
Immersion in water
............................................................ 333
Sealing
............................................................................ 333
Anointing
............................................................................ 335
Sacred meal
........................................................................ 336
Consecration of water, bread and oil
.............................. 336
Renunciation
...................................................................... 337
Catechesis
............................................................................ 337
Preparatory discipline
........................................................ 338
The limitations of the evidence
........................................ 339
Conclusions
........................................................................ 340
The Gospel of Philip
.................................................................. 341
Two patterns
...................................................................... 341
Anointing is superior to water baptism
.......................... 342
Status of the eucharist
...................................................... 344
CONTENTS Xl
Acts of preparation
............................................................ 346
Baptism
.............................................................................. 346
Anointing
............................................................................ 346
Garment metaphor
............................................................ 348
Carrying lamps
.................................................................. 348
Ritual kiss
.......................................................................... 348
Form of the eucharist
........................................................ 349
Conclusions
........................................................................ 349
Inscriptions
.............................................................................. 350
The Bridal chamber inscription
.................................... 350
The inscription of Flavia Sophe
...................................... 351
The Tripartite Tractate
.............................................................. 353
Liturgical fragments (NHG XI, 2a~e)
.................................. 355
Anointing
............................................................................ 356
Baptism
.......................................................
^
..................... 357
Eucharist
............................................................................ 360
The testimony of
Iren.
Haer. I
21 ........................................ 360
General remarks
................................................................ 360
No.
1 .................................................................................. 364
No.
2 .................................................................................. 365
Nos.
3
and
4:
Irenaeus presentation
.............................. 365
The invocations
.................................................................. 369
No.
5 .................................................................................. 373
No.
6 .................................................................................. 374
Concluding remarks
.......................................................... 375
Exc.
21-22
and
35 36:
The union with angels
.................. 377
The Gospel of Truth
.................................................................. 383
Chapter Twenty-Six: Initiation: Synopsis of the acts
.......... 386
С
atechesis
................................................................................ 386
Preparatory discipline
............................................................ 388
Pre-immersion acts
................................................................ 389
Consecration of the water and the oil
................................ 390
Immersion
.............................................................................. 390
Post-immersion acts
................................................................ 391
Baptismal eucharist
................................................................ 394
Chapter Twenty-Seven: The ideology of the initiation
ritual
........................................................................................ 395
Xli CONTENTS
Chapter Twenty-Eight: The historical position of
Valentinian initiation
............................................................ 398
Elements and sequence
.......................................................... 398
Apolytrosis
.................................................................................. 401
The Name
.............................................................................. 403
The bridal chamber
.......................................................... 405
Chapter Twenty-Nine: A ritual for the dying
...................... 406
Iren.
Haer. I
21:5
and lApoc.
Jas
......................................... 406
The underlying doctrine
........................................................ 410
The ritual
................................................................................ 412
Sophia as paraclete and psychopomp
.................................. 412
Conclusion
.............................................................................. 414
t
PART V
VALENTINUS AND THE
VALENTINI
ANS
Chapter Thirty: Valentinus: biography and sources
............ 417
Life
.......................................................................................... 417
The Sources for the Doctrine of Valentinus
...................... 422
Fragments
............................................................................ 422
Doxographic reports
.......................................................... 425
The common denominator
.............................................. 426
Chapter Thirty-One: Valentinus: a study of the fragments
430
Fragment
1 ............................................................................ 430
The creation of Adam by angels
.................................... 431
The seed from above
........................................................ 434
The pre-existent Man
........................................................ 437
The Name
.......................................................................... 442
The open speech
............................................................ 442
The angel s fear
................................................................ 446
The angels doing away with Adam
............................ 448
Conclusions
........................................................................ 450
Fragment
2 ............................................................................ 451
The manifestation of the one good Father
.................... 453
The heart as an inn
.......................................................... 455
Fragment
3 ............................................................................ 457
The symbolism of the fragment
...................................... 458
Effecting divinity
............................................................ 459
CONTENTS
Xlii
Fragment
4 ............................................................................ 460
The theme of division
...................................................... 461
Fragment
5 ............................................................................ 465
The cosmos and the aeon
................................................ 466
The adorning name
.......................................................... 467
Fragment
6 ............................................................................ 473
Fragment
8 ............................................................................ 479
Form and function
............................................................ 480
The cosmic chain : Monism or dualism?
...................... 481
Depths, fruits, womb, and child
........................ 485
Θέρος
.................................................................................. 487
Conclusions
............................................................................ 488
Chapter Thirty-Two: Valentinians: fragments of the
history of Valentinianism
...................................................... 491
The history of Valentinianism
.............................................. 491
Valentinus
.............................................................................. 491
Valentinianism in the second century
.................................. 492
Western Valentinians
............................................................ 494
Ptolemy
.............................................................................. 494
Heracleon
............................................................................ 495
Alexander
............................................................................ 496
Secundus
............................................................................ 497
Marcus
................................................................................ 498
Florinus
.............................................................................. 500
Cossianus/Julius Cassianus
................................................ 501
Tatian
.................................................................................. 501
Theotimus
.......................................................................... 501
Eastern Valentinians
.............................................................. 502
Axionicus
............................................................................ 502
Ardesianes
(?) ...................................................................... 503
Theodotus
.......................................................................... 503
Concluding remarks about Valentinianism in the second
century
................................................................................ 503
Valentinianism in the third century
.................................... 504
Valentinianism in the fourth century
.................................. 506
Bibliography
................................................................................ 509
Index
.......................................................................................... 521
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CONTENTS
Abbreviations
. xv
Introduction
. 1
PART I
VALENTINIANISM EAST AND WEST
Chapter One: The Valentinians of Irenaeus
. 9
The structure of Book I
. 11
Inconsistencies in the presentation of "the Valentinians"
. 13
The two meanings of "the Valentinians"
. 13
Unity and diversity of "the Valentinians"
. 15
The "Valentinians" and the "Ptolemaeans"
. 17
The conflicting reports on the "Ptolemaeans"
. 20
Conclusions
. 22
Chapter Two: "Valentinus" in
Iren.
Haer. I
11:1 . 23
Chapter Three: The doctrine of Theodotus
. 28
The spiritual body of the Saviour
. 30
The Saviour himself needed redemption
. 31
Christ as Sophia's son
. 34
The suffering of the deity
(?) . 37
Chapter Four: The two "schools"
. 39
Tertullian's testimony
. 39
Hippolytus' testimony
. 40
Valentinus on the Saviour's body
. 41
What is the Saviour's body?
. 41
The inaccuracy of Hippolytus
. 43
Chapter Five: The soteriology of The Tripartite Tractate
. 46
The incarnation
. 47
The heavenly and the earthly church
. 50
The dialectics of mutual participation
. 52
Conclusion
. 57
VI
CONTENTS
Chapter Six: The soteriology of Irenaeus' system
. 59
Chapter Seven: The soteriology of Exc.
43:2—65 . 62
The advent of the Saviour and the composition of
his body
. 62
Inconsistencies in the soteriological status of the
spirituals
. 64
Explanation of these inconsistencies
. 68
Chapter Eight: The soteriology of
Iren.
Haer. I
7:2 . 73
Chapter Nine: The soteriology of Hipp. Haer. VI
29-36 . 77
Chapter Ten: Provisional conclusions
. 81
Chapter Eleven: Eastern soteriologies: The Treatise on
Resurrection
. 83
Chapter Twelve: Eastern soteriologies: The Interpretation of
Knowledge
. 86
Chapter Thirteen: Eastern soteriologies: The Gospel of Philip
90
The conception and composition of the Saviour
. 90
The ritual context of the generation of the Saviour's
body
. 93
Conclusion
. 102
Chapter Fourteen: The soteriology of Heracleon
. 103
Heracleon's commentary on John
2:12—22 . 104
The descent into matter
. 108
The Saviour came to redeem the spirituals
. 112
The absence of a pre-existent church as the body of the
Saviour
. 115
The position of Heracleon
. 118
Chapter Fifteen: The position of Ptolemy
. 119
The Letter to Flora
. 119
The position of the Demiurge
. 120
Ptolemy's system
. 121
CONTENTS
Vil
The Saviour as demiurge
. 122
A psychic Christ?
. 124
A soteriology of mutual participation?
. 127
Conclusion
. 128
PART II
THE THREE DIMENSIONS OF VALENTINIANISM
Chapter Sixteen: Salvation in history and ritual
. 133
The soteriological contrast pattern
. 134
The parallelism of salvation history and baptism
. 135
The Saviour as agent and model of salvation
. 137
Event and symbol
. 138
Result
1:
Ambiguity in the narrative
. 139
Result
2:
Ambiguity in the ritual
. 140
Resolving the ambiguities: The power of the "Name"
. 141
The saved Saviour
. 143
Chapter Seventeen: Salvation in history and protological
myth
. 146
The Gospel of Truth
. 146
History and protology
. 148
The revelation of the book of names
. 150
The function of the Saviour
. 152
From history to protology
. 155
The protological mediator
. 158
The unity and difference of Father, Son, and aeons
. 161
Concluding remarks
. 163
Chapter Eighteen: Protology, salvation history, and ritual
. 166
The Tripartite Tractate
. 166
Protology and the fall
. 166
The origins of matter and soul
. 167
The origin of the spiritual church
. 167
Cosmogony
. 167
Anthropogony and human history
. 168
The incarnation
. 169
Eschatology
. 169
Vlil
CONTENTS
History and ritual
. 169
The Saviour as agent and model of salvation
. 169
From the redeeming and redeemed Saviour, to the
redeeming and redeemed church
. 172
A shifted focus
. 177
Protology and ritual
. 178
Protology, salvation history, ritual
. 182
Protology as salvation history
. 182
Protology and restoration: Conflicting soteriologies
. 184
Protology and incarnation
. 186
Chapter Nineteen: Conclusion to Part II
. 188
PART III
VALENTINIAN PROTOLOGY
Chapter Twenty: The pleromatology
. 193
The two main types
. 193
Iren.
Haer. I
1-3 . 195
From Father and Son to Tetrad
. 196
The deferral of duality
. 198
The rupture
. 198
Hipp. Haer. VI
29:2 30:5 . 200
Iren.
Haer. I
11:1 . 204
Iren.
Haer. I
11:2 . 205
Iren.
Haer. I
11:3 . 206
Iren.
Haer. I
11:5 . 207
Iren.
Haer. I
12:1 . 208
Iren.
Haer. I
12:3 . 209
Exc.
6-7:3 . 211
Iren.
Haer. I
8:5 . 213
Epiph. Pan.
XXXI 5-6 . 218
The epistolary introduction
. 218
First principles: A redacted text
. 219
The generation of the Ogdoad
. 222
The Duodecad and the
Decad
. 224
A self-contained protology
. 227
A Valentiman
Exposition
. 231
The structure of the Pleroma
. 231
CONTENTS
IX
First principles
. 233
The generation of the Son
. 234
A second version of the protology
. 235
Combination of the two versions
. 236
The Limit
. 238
A discrepancy in the protological account
. 240
Iren.
Haer. I
14
(The
Sige
of Marcus)
. 241
Being as text
. 241
The plurality in the Name
. 244
Chapter Twenty-One: The myth of separation and
restoration
. 248
Systems with one Sophia
.<-. 248
The Tripartite Tractate
. 248
Iren.
Haer. I
11:1 . 251
Exc.
23:2, 32-33
(Theodotus)
. 253
A Valentinian Exposition
. 255
Systems with two Sophias
. 257
The two Sophias
. 257
Sophia and Christ
. 258
The
%
of Marcus
. 261
Chapter Twenty-Two: Chronology of the protologies
. 263
The priority of type A over type
В
. 263
Type
В
systems with one Sophia
. 266
Chapter Twenty-Three: The meaning and origins of
Valentinian protology
. 269
Valentinian protology as Neopythagorean physics
. 270
Moderatus
and Irenaeus' system on the origin of
matter
. 271
"Extension," "spreading out," "withdrawal," and
"division"
. 275
The Limit
. 279
"Audacity," "otherness," "movement," "independence"
283
"Passion"
. 288
The origins of the type A protology
. 291
Attestations of the model
. 292
A Neopythagorean source?
. 293
Affinities with The Chaldean Oracles and later
Neoplatonism
. 295
X
GONTENXS
Relation to the
Neoplatonic
system of triads
. 298
The embryological model
. 307
The formation of the Entirety in the Father's womb
. 307
The background in ancient embryology
. 309
The theory of embryonic formation in other
Valentinian documents
. 312
Protology and Soteriology
. 313
Chapter Twenty-Four: The transformation of eschatology
to protology
. 315
The manifestation of the saints
. 315
The disclosure of the spirituals in the world
. 316
The manifestation "from above"
. 320
The manifestation of the Valentinian
εκκλησία
. 323
The union with the angels
. 325
From eschatological to protological manifestation, and
their ritual
actualisation
. 326
PART IV
VALENTINIAN INITIATION
Chapter Twenty-Five: The evidence for Valentinian
initiation
. 333
Exc.
66-86 . 333
Immersion in water
. 333
"Sealing"
. 333
Anointing
. 335
Sacred meal
. 336
Consecration of water, bread and oil
. 336
Renunciation
. 337
Catechesis
. 337
Preparatory discipline
. 338
The limitations of the evidence
. 339
Conclusions
. 340
The Gospel of Philip
. 341
Two patterns
. 341
Anointing is superior to water baptism
. 342
Status of the eucharist
. 344
CONTENTS Xl
Acts of preparation
. 346
Baptism
. 346
Anointing
. 346
Garment metaphor
. 348
Carrying lamps
. 348
Ritual kiss
. 348
Form of the eucharist
. 349
Conclusions
. 349
Inscriptions
. 350
"The Bridal chamber inscription"
. 350
The inscription of Flavia Sophe
. 351
The Tripartite Tractate
. 353
Liturgical fragments (NHG XI, 2a~e)
. 355
Anointing
. 356
Baptism
.
^
. 357
Eucharist
. 360
The testimony of
Iren.
Haer. I
21 . 360
General remarks
. 360
No.
1 . 364
No.
2 . 365
Nos.
3
and
4:
Irenaeus' presentation
. 365
The invocations
. 369
No.
5 . 373
No.
6 . 374
Concluding remarks
. 375
Exc.
21-22
and
35 36:
The union with angels
. 377
The Gospel of Truth
. 383
Chapter Twenty-Six: Initiation: Synopsis of the acts
. 386
С
atechesis
. 386
Preparatory discipline
. 388
Pre-immersion acts
. 389
Consecration of the water and the oil
. 390
Immersion
. 390
Post-immersion acts
. 391
Baptismal eucharist
. 394
Chapter Twenty-Seven: The ideology of the initiation
ritual
. 395
Xli CONTENTS
Chapter Twenty-Eight: The historical position of
Valentinian initiation
. 398
Elements and sequence
. 398
Apolytrosis
. 401
The Name
. 403
The "bridal chamber"
. 405
Chapter Twenty-Nine: A ritual for the dying
. 406
Iren.
Haer. I
21:5
and lApoc.
Jas
. 406
The underlying doctrine
. 410
The ritual
. 412
Sophia as paraclete and psychopomp
. 412
Conclusion
. 414
t
PART V
VALENTINUS AND THE
"VALENTINI
ANS"
Chapter Thirty: Valentinus: biography and sources
. 417
Life
. 417
The Sources for the Doctrine of Valentinus
. 422
Fragments
. 422
Doxographic reports
. 425
The common denominator
. 426
Chapter Thirty-One: Valentinus: a study of the fragments
430
Fragment
1 . 430
The creation of Adam by angels
. 431
The seed from above
. 434
The pre-existent Man
. 437
The Name
. 442
The "open speech"
. 442
The angel's fear
. 446
The angels' "doing away" with Adam
. 448
Conclusions
. 450
Fragment
2 . 451
The manifestation of the one good Father
. 453
The heart as an inn
. 455
Fragment
3 . 457
The symbolism of the fragment
. 458
"Effecting divinity"
. 459
CONTENTS
Xlii
Fragment
4 . 460
The theme of division
. 461
Fragment
5 . 465
The cosmos and the aeon
. 466
The adorning name
. 467
Fragment
6 . 473
Fragment
8 . 479
Form and function
. 480
The "cosmic chain": Monism or dualism?
. 481
"Depths," "fruits," "womb," and "child"
. 485
Θέρος
. 487
Conclusions
. 488
Chapter Thirty-Two: Valentinians: fragments of the
history of Valentinianism
. 491
The history of Valentinianism
. 491
Valentinus
. 491
Valentinianism in the second century
. 492
Western Valentinians
. 494
Ptolemy
. 494
Heracleon
. 495
Alexander
. 496
Secundus
. 497
Marcus
. 498
Florinus
. 500
Cossianus/Julius Cassianus
. 501
Tatian
. 501
Theotimus
. 501
Eastern Valentinians
. 502
Axionicus
. 502
Ardesianes
(?) . 503
Theodotus
. 503
Concluding remarks about Valentinianism in the second
century
. 503
Valentinianism in the third century
. 504
Valentinianism in the fourth century
. 506
Bibliography
. 509
Index
. 521 |
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