Author: Ismo Dunderberg
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231141727
Category: Religion
Page: 325
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DOWNLOAD NOWValentinus (100-160 C.E.) was an influential Gnostic opposed to the practices that would later become part of the Christian orthodoxy. This text covers Valentinus's interpretation of the biblical creation myth, in which he affirms mankind's original immortality and places a special emphasis on the 'frank speech' afforded to Adam by God.
