Valentinian ethics and paraenetic discourse determining the social function of moral exhortation in Valentinian Christianity /

Main Author: Tite, Philip L., 1969-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.
Series:Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies ; v. 67
Subjects:
Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10372673
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Constructing social identity through discourse : a socio-rhetorical approach for the study of Valentinian paraenesis
  • Defining paraenesis I : historical phases within the academic study of paraenesis
  • Defining paraenesis II : towards a functional understanding of paraenesis
  • Literary aspects of paraenesis : indicators of moral exhortation from the Greco-Roman world within Valentinianism
  • Two schools and the call to reconciliation : literary and social aspects of moral exhortation in the Interpretation of knowledge
  • Existing in error : literary and social aspects of moral exhortation in the Gospel of truth
  • Conclusion.