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Offering a fresh assessment of the presence and function of paraenesis within Valentinianism, this book places Valentinian moral exhortation within the context of early Christian moral discourse. Like other early Christians, Valentinians were not only interested in ethics, but used moral exhortation to discursively shape social identity. Building on the increasing recognition of ethical and communal concerns reflected in the Nag Hammadi sources, this book advances the discussion by elucidating the social rhetoric within, especially, the Gospel of Truth and the Interpretation of Knowledge. The social function of paraenesis is to persuade an audience through social re-presentation. The authors of these texts discursively position their readers, and themselves, within engaging moments of narrativity. It is hoped that this study will encourage greater integration of research between those working on the Nag Hammadi material and those studying early Christian paraenetic discourse.
Price: $229.00
Pages: 368
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies
Publication Date:
31 August 2009
ISBN: 9789004175075
Format: Hardcover
"Tite’s book rightly underscores the importance of ethics in Valentinian Christianity" – Birger A. Pearson, in: Religious Studies Review 26/1 (March 2010)
"This monograph makes an important contribution to the scholarly understanding of moral exhortation in Valentinian teaching." – Paul Foster, School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh
"This monograph makes an important contribution to the scholarly understanding of moral exhortation in Valentinian teaching." – Paul Foster, School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh
Philip L. Tite, Ph.D. (2005) in Religious Studies, McGill University, is Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Willamette University, Salem Oregon. He is the author of Compositional Transitions in 1 Peter (International Scholars, 1997), Conceiving Peace and Violence (UPA, 2004), and co-editor of Religion, Terror and Violence (Routledge, 2008). His research and teaching center on the social and rhetorical aspects of early Christianity and Gnosticism.