Valentinian ethics and paraenetic discourse [electronic resource] : determining the social function of moral exhortation in Valentinian Christianity / by Philip L. Tite.
Material type: TextSeries: Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies ; 67.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009Description: xiv, 368 pSubject(s): Valentinians | Christian moral exhortation | Christian ethics | Moral exhortationGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 273/.1 LOC classification: BT1475 | .T58 2009Online resources: Click to ViewRevision of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--McGill University, 2005.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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.
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