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Valentinian Christianity - Texts and Translations (Hardcover)
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Valentinian Christianity - Texts and Translations (Hardcover)
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Valentinus, an Egyptian Christian who traveled to Rome to teach his
unique brand of theology, and his followers, the Valentinians,
formed one of the largest and most influential sects of
Christianity in the second and third centuries. But by the fourth
century, their writings had all but disappeared suddenly and
mysteriously from the historical record, as the newly consolidated
imperial Christian Church condemned as heretical all forms of what
has come to be known as Gnosticism. Only in 1945 were their
extensive original works finally rediscovered, and the resurrected
"Gnostic Gospels" soon rooted themselves in both the scholarly and
popular imagination. Valentinian Christianity: Texts and
Translations brings together for the first time all the extant
texts composed by Valentinus and his followers. With accessible
introductions and fresh translations based on new transcriptions of
the original Greek and Coptic manuscripts on facing pages, Geoffrey
S. Smith provides an illuminating, balanced overview of Valentinian
Christianity and its formative place in Christian history.
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