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Valentinianism

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Valentinianism
a 2nd-century blending of Egyptian Gnosticism and Christi-anity into a system of heretical doctrines, especially the denial that Christ took his human nature from the Virgin Mary. Cf. Gnosticism. — Valentinian, n., adj.
See also: Heresy
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He also draws on materials associated with the eastern Valentinian Theodotus in order to distinguish the more primitive Christology, soteriology, and protology of eastern Valentinianism from the more elaborate theories of the western systems.
The spiritual seed; the church of the "Valentinians" by Reference & Research Book News
As with Valentinianism, with whose abstractions it has much in common, it is difficult to summarise its tenets.
Early heresies in the East: heresy Part I by Baldwin, Barry / Catholic Insight
 
 
 
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