Abstract
[Autom. eng. transl.] The doctrine of the divine Plèroma (not to be understood simply as 'fullness', but as a knowable portion contained in the divine) of Valentino and his school obeys a monist and pantheistic conception of the divine in which the graduation of the eòni on one side makes the continuity between the first principle and reality, and on the other creates discontinuity about the origin of evil, resolved in an ontological caries due to a second principle which is not personal but equally active. The gradual tendency on the part of some followers of Valentino to mark the transcendence of the first God and to accentuate the hypostatization of eòni obeys the accentuation of the concern to safeguard divine innocence in order to evil, according to a typical dualistic perception, which inexorably it had to widen the gap with respect to the doctrinal positions of the great Church.
| Translated title of the contribution | [Autom. eng. transl.] The doctrine of the Plèroma of the Gnostic Valentine and his school: monist and dualist instances |
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| Original language | Italian |
| Title of host publication | Ex pluribus unum. Studi in onore di Giulia Sfameni Gasparro |
| Editors | Concetta Giuffré Scibona, Attilio Mastrocinque |
| Pages | 315-330 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Publication status | Published - 2015 |
Keywords
- Cristianesimo delle origini
- Early Christianity
- Gnosticism
- Gnosticismo
- Late Antiquity
- Storia delle Religioni
- Tardo Antico
- Valentino e Valentinianesimo
- Valentinus & Valentinianism