| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 236 pages) |
| Series |
Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies ; volume 95 |
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Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies ; 95.
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| Contents |
The ontological and epistemological foundations for ethics -- Emotions, demons, and moral ability -- Free will and the configuration of the human mind -- Natural human categories and moral progress -- School or church? teaching, learning, and the community structure -- Honor and attitudes toward social and political involvement |
| Summary |
"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 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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Lunds universitet, 2018 titled Early Christian determinism : a study of the ethics of the Tripartite tractate |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 17, 2020) |
| SUBJECT |
Tripartite tractate. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93094633
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Tripartite tractate fast |
| Subject |
Valentinians.
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Christian ethics.
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Spirituality -- Paganism & Neo-Paganism.
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RELIGION -- Comparative Religion.
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
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Christian ethics
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Valentinians
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2019981066 |
| ISBN |
9789004407763 |
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9004407766 |
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