Valentinian ethics and paraenetic discourse :determining the social function of moral exhortation in Valentinian Christianity
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Leiden ; Boston
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Brill
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Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies ;v. 76
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Revision of author's thesis )Ph. D.(--McGill University, 2005
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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by Philip L. Tite
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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