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Offering a fresh assessment of the presence and function of paraenesis within Valentinianism, this book places Valentinian moral exhortation within the context of early Christian moral discourse. Like other early Christians, Valentinians were not only interested in ethics, but used moral exhortation to discursively shape social identity. Building on the increasing recognition of ethical and communal concerns reflected in the Nag Hammadi sources, this book advances the discussion by elucidating the social rhetoric within, especially, the Gospel of Truth and the Interpretation of Knowledge . The social function of paraenesis is to persuade an audience through social re-presentation. The authors of these texts discursively position their readers, and themselves, within engaging moments of narrativity. It is hoped that this study will encourage greater integration of research between those working on the Nag Hammadi material and those studying early Christian paraenetic discourse.

Valentinians --- Christian moral exhortation --- Christian ethics --- Moral exhortation --- Valentinians. --- Christian moral exhortation. --- Christian ethics. --- Moral exhortation. --- 273.15 --- 273.15 Valentinianisme --- Valentinianisme --- Diatribe (Rhetoric) --- Exhortation, Moral --- Paraenesis --- Protrepsis --- Psychagogy --- Moral education --- Ethical theology --- Moral theology --- Theology, Ethical --- Theology, Moral --- Christian life --- Christian philosophy --- Religious ethics --- Christian paraenesis --- Gnosticism --- Christian heresies --- History --- Valentiniens --- Exhortation morale chrétienne --- Morale chrétienne

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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.

Valentinians --- Christian ethics --- Tripartite tractate --- 273 "15" --- 273.1*35 --- 273.1*35 Gnosis: Koptische bronnen: Nag Hammadi; Codex Jung; Evangelium veritatis --- Gnosis: Koptische bronnen: Nag Hammadi; Codex Jung; Evangelium veritatis --- 273 "15" Heresies et schismes--?"15" --- 273 "15" Schisma's. Ketterijen--?"15" --- Heresies et schismes--?"15" --- Schisma's. Ketterijen--?"15" --- Ethical theology --- Moral theology --- Theology, Ethical --- Theology, Moral --- Christian life --- Christian philosophy --- Religious ethics --- Gnosticism --- Christian heresies --- History --- Tripartite tractate. --- Tractatus tripartitus --- Valentinians. --- Christian ethics. --- Religion --- Christianity

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This reception history of the Gospel of Matthew utilizes theoretical frameworks and literary sources from two typically distinct disciplines, patristic studies and Valentinian (a.k.a. ?Gnostic?) studies. The author shows how in the second and third centuries, the Valentinians were important contributors to a shared culture of early Christian exegesis. By examining the use of the same Matthean pericopes by both Valentinian and patristic exegetes, the author demonstrates that certain Valentinian exegetical innovations were influential upon, and ultimately adopted by, patristic authors. Chief among Valentinian contributions include the allegorical interpretation of texts that would become part of the New Testament, a sophisticated theory of the historical and theological relationship between Christians and Jews, and indeed the very conceptualization of the Gospel of Matthew as sacred scripture. This study demonstrates that what would eventually emerge from this period as the ecclesiological and theological center cannot be adequately understood without attending to some groups and individuals that have often been depicted, both by subsequent ecclesiastical leaders and modern scholars, as marginal and heretical.

226.2 --- 226.2 Evangelie volgens Matteüs --- 226.2 Evangile de S. Matthieu --- Evangelie volgens Matteüs --- Evangile de S. Matthieu --- Exegese. --- Gospel of Matthew. --- Matthäusevangelium. --- Patristic authors. --- Patristik. --- Valentinianer. --- Valentinians. --- exegesis. --- RELIGION / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / New Testament. --- Bible. --- Evangelie volgens Matteus --- Evangelie volgens Matthéüs --- Matʻae pogŭm --- Matai den --- Matai ni yoru fukuinsho --- Matius (Book of the New Testament) --- Mattá --- Matteo (Book of the New Testament) --- Matteus --- Matthäusevangelium --- Matthéüs --- Matthew (Book of the New Testament) --- Matthieu (Book of the New Testament) --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- History