In the second century, Valentinians and other gnosticizing
Christians used numerical structures and symbols to describe God,
interpret the Bible, and frame the universe. In this study of the
controversy that resulted, Joel Kalvesmaki shows how earlier
neo-Pythagorean and Platonist number symbolism provided the impetus
for this theology of arithmetic, and describes the ways in which
gnosticizing groups attempted to engage both the Platonist and
Christian traditions. He explores the rich variety of number
symbolism then in use, among both gnosticizing groups and their
orthodox critics, demonstrating how those critics developed an
alternative approach to number symbolism that would set the pattern
for centuries to come. Arguing that the early dispute influenced
the very tradition that inspired it, Kalvesmaki explains how, in
the late third and early fourth centuries, numbers became
increasingly important to Platonists, who engaged in arithmological
constructions and disputes that mirrored the earlier Christian
ones.
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