Sökning: "Valentinianism"

Hittade 3 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Valentinianism.

  1. 1. Rethinking the Gospel of Truth : A Study of its Eastern Valentinian Setting

    Författare :Jörgen Magnusson; Gabriella Gustafsson; Anders Hultgård; Birger Pearson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Gospel of Truth; Nag Hammadi; Valentinianism; Gnostic; Gnosticism; early Christianity; Coptic; history of religions; text linguistics; late Antiquity; History of religion; Religionshistoria;

    Sammanfattning : Already in the second century, the Church Father Irenaeus warned against reading the Gospel of Truth that was used among the so-called Valentinians. For more than one and a half millennium GospTruth was lost until in the 1950s a Coptic text was discovered that could be a translation of that work both loved and hated. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Origen’s References to Heracleon : A Quotation-Analytical Study of the Earliest Known Commentary on the Gospel of John

    Författare :Carl Johan Berglund; James Anthony Kelhoffer; Anders Ekenberg; Peter W. Martens; Tobias Nicklas; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Heracleon; Origen; Fourth Gospel; Gnosticism; Valentinianism; Quotation Analysis; Second Century; Early Christianity; Nya testamentets exegetik; New Testament Exegesis;

    Sammanfattning : This study of Origen’s references to the second-century author Heracleon addresses two problems in previous research: Scholars have regularly presumed that every statement Origen attributes to Heracleon is equivalent to a verbatim quotation, and that Heracleon’s beliefs conform to those described in heresiological sources. The study develops a method of quotation analysis that uses variations in Origen’s attribution formulas to categorize the almost two hundred references as “verbatim quotations,” “summaries,” “explanatory paraphrases,” or “mere assertions. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Early Christian Determinism : A Study of The Ethics of The Tripartite Tractate

    Författare :Paul Linjamaa; Religionshistoria och religionsbeteendevetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; The Tripartite Tractate; Determinism; Christian Ethics; Free Will; Origen of Alexandria; Nag Hammadi Texts; Valentinianism; Emotions; Ancient Epistemology; Early Alexandrian Christianity;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this study is to explore the ethics of the Nag Hammadi text, The Tripartite Tractate. This text, the fifth tractate in Nag Hammadi Codex I, has received comparatively little attention, although it is the most detailed Valentinian treaty still extant. LÄS MER