Beyond gnosticism : myth, lifestyle, and society in the school of Valentinus /
Valentinus was a popular, influential, and controversial early Christian teacher. His school flourished in the second and third centuries C.E. Yet because his followers ascribed the creation of the visible world not to a supreme God but to an inferior and ignorant Creator-God, they were from early o...
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
2008
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