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| | The Valentinian Cosmology |
 | | Valentinus was a second-century Christian who was expelled by the early Church (who doubtless found his theology too esoteric) and went on to found his own school. |
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| | Valentinus and the Valentinian Tradition |
| | As Valentinus says, "Since deficiency came into being when the Father was unknown, therefore when the Father is known, from that moment on, the deficiency will no longer exist." (Gospel of Truth 24:28-32) and the "realm of appearance is no longer manifest but will pass away in the harmony of unity" (Gospel of Truth 25:1-6). | | | Valentinus describes it this way, "The Father is within them and they are within the Father, being perfect, being undivided in the truly good one, being in no way deficient in anything, but they are refreshed in the Spirit" (Gospel of Truth 42:27-33). | | | As a result, fear overcame the Craftsman and his angels (Valentinus Fragment 1), and they became envious of the human being "because they were separated from the spiritual union" (Gospel of Philip 70:26-29). |
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| | Valentinius Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography |
| | Among the more prominent disciples of Valentinus, who, however, did not slavishly follow their master in all his views, were Bardasanes, invariably linked to Valentinus in later references, as well as Heracleon, Ptolemy and Marcus. | | | His Alexandrian followers claimed that Valentinus was a follower of Theudas, who was in turn a follower of St. Paul of Tarsus. | | | Valentinus taught first in Alexandria and went to Rome about 136, during the pontificate of Pope Hyginus, and remained until the pontificate of Pope Anicetus. |
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http://www.variedtastes.com/encyclopedia/Valentinius
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| | The Development of the Canon of the New Testament - Valentinus |
| | Valentinus was the founder of Roman and Alexandrian schools of Gnosticism, an eclectic, dualistic system of religious doctrines postulating the evil origin of matter and the revelatory enlightenment, or gnosis, of an elite. | | | Heracleon, a disciple of Valentinus, wrote a detailed commentary on the Gospel according to John, probably after the middle of the 2nd century. | | | Ptolemy, a disciple of Valentinus, is known as the author of an open letter to a wealthy and eminent Christian lady, Flora by name, whom he tries to convert to the Valentinian system. |
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| | Valentinus and the Valentinian Tradition |
| | Valentinus himself admits that it is an surprising idea, "It was quite amazing that they were in the Father without being aquainted with him and that they alone were able to emanate, inasmuch as they were not able to perceive and recognize the one in whom they were" (Gospel Truth 22:27-33). | | | According to Valentinus, the Father's "free act of speaking is the manifestation of the Son" (Valentinus Fragment 2). | | | The world and the human beings in it are said to exist in a state of ignorance and deficiency because they came into being apart from the Name. |
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http://www.webcom.com/gnosis/library/valentinus/Name_Naming.htm
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| | Valentinus - A Gnostic for All Seasons |
| | Valentinus, the Gnostic who almost became pope, was thus the only man who could have succeeded in gaining a form of permanent positive recognition for the Gnostic approach to the message of Christ. | | | According to Valentinus, Jesus is indeed Saviour, but the term needs to be understood in the meaning of the original Greek word, used by orthodox and Gnostic Christian alike. | | | Tertullian also stated that Valentinus was personally acquainted with Origen, and one may speculate with some justification that his influence on this orthodox church father was considerable. |
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http://www.gnosis.org/valentinus.htm
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| | Christian Gnosticism |
| | For Valentinus, then, the individual who is predestined for salvation is also predestined for a sort of divine stewardship that involves an active hand in history, and not a mere repose with God, or even a blissful existence of loving creation, as Basilides held. | | | Valentinus refers to this divine collectivity as the "first octet" (Irenaeus 1.11.1). | | | This means, essentially, that Mani began with a fundamental belief about the nature of humanity and its place in the cosmos, and concocted a myth to explain the situation of humankind, and the dynamics of humanity's eventual salvation. |
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http://www.hermetic-philosophy.com/gnosis1.htm
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| | But Valentinus was dedicated to the ideals of Christ, and not even the threat of death could keep him from practicing his beliefs. | | | Then one day, Valentinus received a visit from Roman soldiers who arrested him, destroyed his medicines and admonished him for his religious beliefs. | | | Claudius had ordered all Romans to worship state religion's idols, and he had made it a crime punishable by death to associate with Christians. |
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| | Basilides, Carpocrates, Valentinus |
| | Valentinus emphasized a primary characteristic of God (we might call it God's essence or even God's "godness") as being bythos or bathos, which is to say "divine depth." God is like a giant chasm or abyss, though not an abyss of sadness or suffering, but rather an abyss of love, joy, and infinite unity. | | | Valentinus' final great message to us, as revealed in the Gospel of Truth, is this: awaken, and take charge of your spiritual liberation! | | | Like Jesus in the Gospel of Thomas, Valentinus realized that the mass of humanity are "intoxicated" and unaware of how "thirsty" they are for the gifts of the spirit (cf. |
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| | Valentinus on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Valentinus wrote letters, homilies, and psalms, of which fragments survive. | | | The recently discovered Coptic manuscript “Gospel of Truth” may be by Valentinus. | | | The little that is known of his life is found in the works of early Christian theologians who refuted him, such as St. Irenaeus and Clement of Alexandria. |
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| | Valentinus (Wace information) |
| | Valentinus cannot have begun to disseminate his Gnostic doctrines till towards the end of the reign of Hadrian (117-138). | | | Under her (according to Valentinus) stand the world-creative angels, whose head is the Demiurge. | | | Since the doctrine of Valentinus concerning the Aeons originated in the cosmogonic and astral powers of the old Syrian Gnosis, one cannot doubt that the Aeons were originally thought of as mythological personages and not as personified notions, although Tertullian (adv. |
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| | Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. V |
| | Valentinus' Explanation of the Birth of Jesus; Twofold Doctrine on the Nature of Jesus' Body; Opinion of the Italians, that Is, Heracleon and Ptolemaeus; Opinion of the Orientals, that Is, Axionicus and Bardesanes. | | | Valentinus' Explanation of the Existence of Christ and the Spirit. | | | Valentinus, therefore, and Heracleon, and Ptolemaeus, and the entire school of these (heretics), as disciples of Pythagoras and Plato, (and) following these guides, have laid down as e fundamental principle of their doctrine the arithmetical system. |
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| | valentinus was a christian priest put to death on 2/14 270 ad | | | valentinus secretly married roman soldiers and their sweethearts. |
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| | Valentinus |
| | Valentinus was a "2nd century AD), Egyptian religious philosopher, founder of Roman and Alexandrian schools of Gnosticism, a system of religious dualism (belief in rival deities of good and evil) with a doctrine of salvation by gnosis, or esoteric knowledge. | | | His disciples claimed that he had been educated by Theodas, a purported pupil of St. Paul, and was baptized a Christian. | | | Valentinian communities, founded by his disciples, provided the major challenge to 2nd- and 3rd-century Christian theology." |
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| | Valentinus |
| | See also the Gospel of Truth by Valentinus or a Valentinian Gnostic. | | | Like Marcion, Valentinus held to a faith that did not fit into the orthodoxy of early Catholicism but that also does not strictly correspond to classical Gnosticism, as known from the Apocryphon of John and the bulk of the refutations of Irenaeus. | | | The myth is known in more detail in versions taught by Valentinus's disciples. |
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http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/valentinus.html
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| | Rehabilitating the Memory of Saint Valentine, the Teacher |
| | On the eve of his martyrdom, Valentinus wrote a letter to his pupil, urging her to stay close to God in prayer. | | | Since Valentinus would not stop practicing his faith, he was arrested and thrown into prison. | | | Julia began to see the world through the eyes of Valentinus and found spiritual comfort in his spiritual strength. |
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| | MetroActive Features Valentine History |
| | Both February martyrs have been honored as saints, whereas the Gnostic Valentinus, born a century earlier, was excommunicated by the church. | | | Emperor Claudius, learning that popular Valentinus was a priest and healer, ordered one of his top minions to keep him out of trouble. | | | Because his rational teachings fused Christianity with the logical teachings of Plato, he offended the church and was exiled to the isle of Cyprus. |
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http://www.metroactive.com/papers/cruz/02.10.99/valentine-9906.html
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| | Religious Movements Homepage: Gnosticism |
| | Valentinus and another strong Gnostic leader, Marcion, were the most feared by the Catholic church (Crim: 278 and Rudolph: 296). | | | This century was also a period when Pagan, Jewish and Christian forms of Gnosticism had the most influence on the doctrine and structure of the Christian Church, even though critics treated it a Christian heresy (Crim: 277). | | | What is Gnosticism: As noted, Gnosticism has been defined as a mystical religion (Ellwood and Partin: 96). |
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| | The Invisible Basilica: Valentinus |
| | Valentinus may have studied with Basilides in Alexandria, he also claimed additional secret teachings from someone named Theodas, who was allegedly a disciple of Paul. | | | Through the unknowing Demiurge, Achamôth infused the Spiritual Sparks into the Pneumatic, or Spiritual, Race. | | | The Pneumatic individual possesses the Sperma Pneumatikon, the Seed of Spirit, and the Knowledge of the Plêrôma. |
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| | VALENTINUS - Online Information article about VALENTINUS |
| | The central point of the piety of Valentinus seems to have been tha mystical contemplation of God; in a letter preserved in Clemens ii. | | | II, 1—3, has preserved what is obviously an older document, possibly from Justin, dealing with Valentinus's own teaching and that of two of his disciples. | | | (8) With the doctrine of the creation of the world is connected the subject of the creation of man. We fortunately know, from a fragment preserved by Clemens, that Valentinus here preserved the old Gnostic myth practically unaltered in his system. |
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| | American Spirit Newspaper - Spiritual Rights Foundation:Saint Valentines Day |
| | " Valentinus replied, "I say of thy gods none other thing but that they were men mortal and merchant, and full of odure and evil. | | | The emperor was so impressed with Valentinus' dignity that he tried to save him by converting him to the Roman Gods, asking Valentinus, "Why wilt thou not abide in amenity and worship idols, and renounce the vain opinion of thy creance? | | | Furthermore, according to legend, on the eve of Valentinus' death, he wrote a farewell message to the jailer's daughter and signed it, "From your Valentine. |
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| | Ministries |
| | The night before Valentinus was to be executed, he wrote one last note to Julia, urging her to stay close to God and thanking her for spending so much time with him. | | | Valentinus became recognized by the church as Saint Valentine. | | | Not even the threat of death could keep Valentinus from practising his beliefs. |
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http://www.paoc.org/ministries/children/FKO/FKOArchive/Feb07_2003.html
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| | Supernatural Religion - Pt 2 Ch 10 |
| | Westcott, beyond calling Ptolemaeus and Heracleon disciples of Valentinus, does not assign any date to either, and does not, of course, offer any further evidence on the point, although, in regard to Heracleon, he admits the ignorance in which we are as to all points of his history, | | | Tischendorf draws an inference from the statement that Heracleon was said to be a gnôrimos of Valentinus, that Origen declares him to have been his friend, holding personal intercourse with him. | | | The assertion with reference to the third Gospel is based solely upon a passage in the Stromata of the Alexandrian Clement. |
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| | From Easter to Valentinus and the Apostles' Creed Once More: A Critical Examination of James Robinson's Proposed ... |
| | Several years ago in his SBL Presidential Address, James Robinson sought to delineate three related sets of parallel trajectories stretching from a common origin in primitive Christianity to their termini in second-century Gnosticism and in credally orthodox Christianity, both of these later viewpoints being divergent (mis)interpretations of the beliefs and experiences of the earliest Christians. | | | But the results of this examination suggest that their value is not to be found in their relevance to the post-resurrection appearances of the Gospel tradition. | | | Robinson's first argument, that the only two NT witnesses of a resurrection appearance both authenticate visualizations of luminous appearances, implicitly presupposes that we do not have the voice of an eyewitness behind the resurrection appearance stories in the Gospel of John. |
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| | byron lebeau page 9 |
| | According to Valentinus, the original author of The Gospel of Truth, Jesus is indeed Savior, but in the sense of the original Greek word, “soter”, which was used by the orthodox and Gnostic Christians alike. | | | Valentinus was a disciple of a man who was a student of St. Paul. | | | In the Gospel of Philip, a scripture [tractate] out of the school of Valentinus, it states: |
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| | Chronology |
| | C120 Valentinus founds school at Alexandria after having a vision of Christ in the form of a child. | | | C110 Valentinus comes into contact with Theudas, an aging disciple of Paul | | | 143 Valentinus a candidate for bishop of Rome |
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| | The Invisible Basilica: History of the Gnostic Catholic Church |
| | Doinel's Gnostic Church combined the theological doctrines of Simon Magus, Valentinus and Marcus (a later Valentinian noted for his development of the mysteries of numbers and letters and of the "mystic marriage") with sacraments derived from the Cathar Church and conferred in rituals which were heavily influenced by those of the Roman Catholic Church. | | | The church was to be administered by male bishops and female "sophias," who were to be elected and consecrated according to the Gnostic Rite. | | | Doinel proclaimed the year 1890 as the beginning of the "Era of the Gnosis Restored." He assumed the office of Patriarch of the Gnostic Church under the mystic name of Valentin II, in homage to Valentinus, the 5th century founder of the Valentinian school of Gnosticism. |
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| | Valentinus, a devout Christian, continued practicing his beliefs in a forbidden Almighty God, and was soon arrested for doing so against the strict orders of Claudius. | | | The request was granted and Julia was soon catching on well to everything Valentinus was teaching, including his strong beliefs in God. | | | One day, Julia asked, "Valentinus, does God really hear our prayers?" "Yes, my child, he hears each one," he replied. |
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| | sciforums.com - The Apostolic succession |
| | For example, the gnostic Valentinus was a disciple of Theudas, who was one of Paul's followers. | | | 07-16-04, 11:36 AM For example, the gnostic Valentinus was a disciple of Theudas, who was one of Paul's followers. |
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| | Lucien LaCroix's Blurty -- Entries |
| | After I had this terrible dream I am sure that Valentinus must also be a creation of Divia. | | | He cained him in front of a window to see him die in the morning. | | | I am sure that this was his aim. |
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| | Encyclopedia: Valentinus |
| | Valentinus, or Valentine, pope for thirty or forty days in 827, was a Roman by birth, and, according to the Liber Pontificalis, was first made a deacon by Paschal I (817-824). | | | Basil Valentinus, a 15th century monk from Erfurt who may have described Bismuth | | | Saint Valentine or Saint Valentinus refers to one of at least three martyred saints of Ancient Rome. |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Valentinus
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| | Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. I |
| | Chapter I.-Absurd Ideas of the Disciples of Valentinus as to the Origin, Name, Order, and Conjugal Productions of Their Fancied Aeons, with the Passages of Scripture Which They Adapt to Their Opinions. | | | I refer especially to the disciples of Ptolemaeus, whose school may be described as a bud from that of Valentinus. | | | I shall also endeavour, according to my moderate ability, to furnish the means of overthrowing them, by showing how absurd and inconsistent with the truth are their statements. |
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| | The Book Of Wonder Encyclopaedia - ~V is for Valentine~ |
| | The legend has it that one of the Emperor's jailers had a daughter, Julia, who had been blind from birth and her father, hearing of the medical and healing abilities possessed by Valentinus, asked the priest to treat the girl. | | | When word got back to Emperor Claudius that Valentinus was secretly performing marriages soldiers were sent to arrest him and Valentinus was thrown into jail. | | | The Emperor at the time, Claudius II, had decreed that the people must worship pagan gods, christianity was outlawed, christian worship and the solemnization of marriage were forbidden. |
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| | The Gospel of Truth |
| | On the basis of literary and conceptual affinities between this text and the exiguous fragments of Valentinus, some scholars have suggested that the Gnostic teacher himself was the author. | | | The richly subtle and sophisticated style and organization of the text, designed to invite readers in an inoffensive way to a certain view of Jesus' salvific role (Attridge 1988), may argue for a later date. | | | That remains a distinct possibility, although it cannot be definitively established. |
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| | Santus Valentinus Angeliad of Surazeus Astarius Gothinius Jesuvius Prophet of Athena Liberty Goddess World Chronicle |
| | Soldiers surround fountain pyramid of love couch where Hymena weeps watching boys and girls dragged apart leaving women huddled in circles weeping in despair till Valentinus gathers girls in his temple as they bring boys from martial camps sneaking in darkness to marry their hearts desires. | | | Claudius sends spies who discover his love temple then soldiers surround his cathedral with swords arresting Valentinus before thousands of couples who flee from a legion of men with long spears. | | | Martia visits Valentinus in purple dusk among roses two lovers kissing by garden wall thick with vines under silver moonlight as fountains sparkle with tears as she turns and runs from his aching arms in despair so he writes her love letters proclaiming his devotion signing from your Valentinus with kisses of worship. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Valentinus |
| | Valentinus (flourished 2nd century ad), religious philosopher, founder of one of the most important sects of Gnosticism. | | | Become a subscriber today and gain access to: |
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| | Saint Valentine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The feast of Saint Valentine was formerly celebrated on February 14 by the Roman Catholic Church until the revised calendar 1969. | | | The historical 2nd-century bishop Valentinus (died ca 153) is not venerated on any day of the Roman Catholic calendar, for his teachings were declared heretical and his works suppressed. | | | It is believed that the priest and the bishop Valentinus are each buried along the Via Flaminia outside Rome, at different lengths from the city. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Valentine
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| | The Society and Fellowship of St. Valentinus |
| | We are bishops, priests, and deacons who gather together to pray, to study, to learn, and to educate men and women for service as Gnostic priests and deacons in the Apostolic Succession. | | | The Society of Saint Valentinus is a clerical fraternity of the Valentinian Gnostic Fellowship of the Universal Gnostic Church. |
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| | Tongues of Fire, Whirlwinds of Noise, by Erik Davis |
| | Because the Demiuge does not receive messages from a higher level of integration than the material world, he presumes these spiritual orders of complexity do not exist (rationalists, take note). | | | Like Alice's cake, or a talking magic mushroom, Gnostic info says "eat me." But the message within the letter boots up information already contained within the soul of our hero: Valentinus' recollection of true origins and destiny. | | | For Valentinus, the evil of the Demiurge results from his ignorance (lack of information) about the true structure of the cosmos, which we could see as the "error" of scrambled signals as well as the unwillingness to doubt one's current views. |
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| | Roman Emperors - DIR Fausta (wife of Constans II) |
| | It was apparently at this point, Constans' accession, that Valentinus arranged for his daughter Fausta to marry the new emperor, our main source for this alliance being the Coptic bishop John of Nikiu. | | | [[1]] Valentinus had designs on the throne, and Fausta's marriage to Constans, grandson of Heraclius, was the result of political manoeuvring by her father following his involvement in the overthrow of the government of Constans' uncle Heraclonas and his mother Martina. | | | Constans' coronation had been in great measure due to pressure from Fausta's father, Valentinus, who had been appointed commander-in-chief in the East by Constans' father, Constantine III, and who supported the rights of his sons against the machinations of Martina after Constantine's death. |
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| | Basil Valentine |
| | Records of the life of Basilius Valentinus, the Benedictine monk who for his achievements in the chemical sphere has been given the title of Father of Modern Chemistry, are a mass of conflicting evidence. | | | Many and varied are the accounts of his life, and historians seem quite unable to agree as to his exact identity, or even as to the century in which he lived. | | | Here follow the Twelve Keys of Basilius Valentinus, the Benedictine, with which we may open the doors of the knowledge of the Most Ancient Stone and unseal the Most Secret Fountain of Health. |
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| | lthough the modern Church no longer recognizes Valentinus, he is remembered in a rather mundane sense by the continuing remembrance as through the observation of Valentine's Day. | | | An important aspect of Gnosticism is found in the Valentinian scheme of the threefold distinction; Pneumatic Man; Noetic/Psychic Man; and, Somatic/Hylic Man. |
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| | Valentinus and the Valentinian Tradition |
| | The section on Valentinus is a valuable aid to the interpretation of the Gospel of Truth and the fragments of his other works. | | | Bentley Layton (ed.), 1980, The Rediscovery of Gnosticism, Vol.1: The School of Valentinus. | | | An excellent study on the role of sin in Valentinian |
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| | Valentinus, Alexandria, Gnostic |
| | Considering the low key attack upon the person, it can only be assumed that Valentinus' thought was too close to Christian for comfort, originating from a strange but not impossible reading of John's Gospel, and through it the Synoptics, especially the teachings from Matthew. | | | If one were to attempt to reconstruct the thought of Valentinus on the basis of the few fragments preserved in the earliest critics -- Irenaeus (c. | | | 260-340) put together what was known of Valentinus within the framework of his historical chronology (E. IV.10): Valentinus was understood to have arrived in Rome during the four-year bishopric of Hyginus (138-142) which he dated from the first year of Antoninus Pius (137-161). |
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| | But the early Christians were anything but quitters, so it was on to Plan B: modulate the overtly sexual nature of Lupercalia by turning this "feast of the flesh" into a "ritual for romance!" This time, the Church selected a single saint to do battle the pagan goddess Juno -- St. Valentine (Valentinus). | | | And since Valentinus had been martyred on February 14, the Church could also preempt the annual February 15 celebration of Lupercalia. | | | The only fly in the ointment was Valentinus himself: he was a chaste man, unschooled in the art of love. |
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| | Valentinus's Multiply Site |
| | The RSS feed for Valentinus is at the following address: | | | To see exclusive content that Valentinus has posted for his friends and family - or to start your own web page like this one - join Multiply (free registration). | | | Every Multiply user has their own RSS feed which lets other people read via an RSS reader, which is a program that aggregates headlines and content from multiple sources. |
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| | Valentinus GEDEON |
| | Valentinus married Theresia SCHUSTER, daughter of Josephus SCHUSTER and Anna Maria EIBEN, on 25 Jun 1882 in Ober-Metzenseifen, Austria-Hungary. |
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| | Amazon.com: From Paul to Valentinus: Christians at Rome in the First Two Centuries: Books |
| | Extensively researched and superbly presented, From Paul To Valentinus successfully strives to present a multifaceted picture of a once-struggling faith's crucial formative era that would be of immense interest to both academia and the non-specialist general reader with an interest in the history of the Christian church. | | | Amazon.com: From Paul to Valentinus: Christians at Rome in the First Two Centuries: Books | | | From Paul To Valentinus: Christians At Rome In The First Two Centuries by Peter Lampe (Professor of New Testament, University of Heidelberg, Germany), amalgamates world history, archaeology, theology, and social analysis in a scholarly and informationally impressive presentation on the rise and shape of the earliest Christian churches in Rome. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0800627024?v=glance
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