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Gnostic Return in Modernity »

Authors: Cyril O'Regan
ISBN-13: 9780791450222, ISBN-10: 0791450228
Format: Paperback
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Date Published: July 2001
Edition: (Non-applicable)

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
Ch. 1	Redeeming and Reconstructing Baur's Model of Gnostic Return	23
Ch. 2	Baurian Gnostic Genealogical Model and Its Contestation	49
2.1	Historicist Challenge: Hans Blumenberg and Epochal Shift	50
2.2	Agon between Gnostic Baurian and Non-Gnostic Genealogies	65
Ch. 3	Classical Valentinian Narratives: Variety and Unity	99
3.1	Ptolemy's Valentinian Gnostic System	102
3.2	The Gospel of Truth	110
3.3	The Tripartite Tractate	118
Ch. 4	Valentinian Narrative Grammar: Irenaean Gestures and the Phenomenon of Valentinian Enlisting	137
4.1	The Contributions of Irenaeus: Developing the Grammatical Hints	143
4.2	Valentinianism's Relation to Other Narrative Discourses	167
Ch. 5	Genealogical Capability of Valentinian Narrative Grammar	179
5.1	Justifying the Protestant Identification of the Baurian Line	181
5.2	Baurian Line and Rule-Governed Deformation of Classical Valentinian Genres	196
5.3	Valentinian Enlisting of Non-Valentinian Narrative Discourses	207
	Conclusion	227
	Notes	237
	Index	295