Narrow your search
Listing 1 - 2 of 2
Sort by

Book
The Ethics of The Tripartite Tractate (NHC I, 5) : a A Study of Determinism and Early Christian Philosophy of Ethics
Author:
ISSN: 09292470 ISBN: 9789004407756 9004407758 9789004407763 9004407766 Year: 2019 Volume: 95 Publisher: Brill

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

In The Ethics of The Tripartite Tractate (NHC I, 5) Paul Linjamaa offers the first full length thematical monograph on the longest Valentinian text extant today. By investigating the ethics of The Tripartite Tractate , this study offers in-depth exploration of the text's ontology, epistemology, theory of will, and passions, as well as the anthropology and social setting of the text. Valentinians have often been associated with determinism, which has been presented as “Gnostic” and then not taken seriously, or been disregarded as an invention of ancient intra-Christian polemics. Linjamaa challenges this conception and presents insights into how early Christian determinism actually worked, and how it effectively sustained viable and functioning ethics.


Book
Heavenly Stories : Tiered Salvation in the New Testament and Ancient Christianity.
Author:
ISBN: 0812299744 Year: 2021 Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Salvation is often thought to be an all-or-nothing matter: you are either saved or damned. Heavenly Stories examines how some important thinkers in the ancient world, including Paul the Apostle, John of Patmos, Hermas, the Sethians, and the Valentinians, believed that salvation comes in degrees.

Listing 1 - 2 of 2
Sort by