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This book challenges the popular use of 'Valentinian' to describe a Christian school of thought in the second century CE by analysing documents ascribed to 'Valentinians' by early Christian Apologists, and more recently by modern scholars after the discovery of codices near Nag Hammadi in Egypt.
List of contents
1 A ‘Valentinian’ as a Tag? Rethinking Classification in the Light of Polemic and Documents 2 Myth and its Role in Education of the Christian Mind and Imagination: A Valentinian Exposition, NHC, XI, 2 3 The Gospel of Truth, NHC, I, 3 and its Possible Alexandrian Affiliation 4 Ptolemy and the Education of Flora 5 The Teacher of Immortality: The Saviour and Soteriology in the Interpretation of Knowledge, NHC, XI, 1 6 Reception of the Johannine Motifs in Heracleon’s Commentary on the Gospel of John and the Tripartite Tractate, NHC, I, 5 7 The Excerpts From Theodotus: In Search of Theology of Salvation 8 Construction of the Christian Identity in the Gospel of Philip, NHC, II, 3 9 The Relationship between Selected Documents from the Nag Hammadi Collection and the New Testament
About the author
Piotr Ashwin-Siejkowski is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at King’s College London, UK. His research is focused on Christian origins and the formation of Christian doctrine in the period from the first to the third century CE. Among his recent publications are ‘Clement of Alexandria’ in The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Patristics (2015) and ‘Creeds, Councils and Doctrinal Development’ in The Early Christian World (Routledge, 2017).
Summary
This book challenges the popular use of ‘Valentinian’ to describe a Christian school of thought in the second century CE by analysing documents ascribed to ‘Valentinians’ by early Christian Apologists, and more recently by modern scholars after the discovery of codices near Nag Hammadi in Egypt.
