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The uniqueness in the valentinian anthropology

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No. 38 (2019)

Abstract

Gnostic soteriology indicates that those who nourish the spiritual element by internalizing knowledge will be saved. This has been interpreted as a static anthropology that divides humanity into three types of fixed natures and each corresponds to a pre-established type of salvation or condemnation. Confusion that comes from different conceptions about the uniqueness of man. In the present work, we will seek to base this hypothesis by comparing the position of Irenaeus of Lyons in Against Heresies with that of the Gnostic texts: Gospel of Truth (NHI, 3), the Treatise on the Resurrection (NH) I, 4) and the Apocryphon of James (NH I, 2).

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Iranaeus, Valentinianism, Anthropology, Nature, Salvation

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Troiano, M. (2019). The uniqueness in the valentinian anthropology. Byzantion Nea Hellás, (38), pp. 129–151. Retrieved from https://rej.uchile.cl/index.php/RBNH/article/view/55494
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Byzantion Nea Hellás
Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades
Universidad de Chile
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