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Valentinus (Gr****: Ούαλεντίνος; c. 100 CE – c. 180) was the best
known and, for a time, most
successful early Christian Gnostic theologian. He founded...
- Valentinus. The only
evidence of this
connection is the
testimony of
Valentinius'
followers and
Clement of Alexandria. It has been
proposed that he was...
- unproved. It is not
known when
Ptolemy became a
disciple of
Valentinius, but
Valentinius was
active in the
Egyptian city of
Alexandria and in Rome. Ptolemy...
- some
versions of
Christian gnosticism,
especially those deriving from
Valentinius, a
lesser deity known as the
Demiurge (see also Neoplatonism, Plotinus)...
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Valentinian II (Latin: Valentini****; 371 – 15 May 392) was a
Roman emperor in the
western part of the
Roman empire between AD 375 and 392. He was at first...
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Valentinian I (Latin: Valentini****; 321 – 17
November 375),
sometimes called Valentinian the Great, was
Roman emperor from 364 to 375. He
ruled the Western...
- fallen, ignorant, or lesser—rather than evil—perspective, such as that of
Valentinius. The
Neoplatonic philosopher Plotinus addressed within his
works Gnosticism's...
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Valentinian III (Latin:
Placidus Valentini****; 2 July 419 – 16
March 455) was
Roman emperor in the West from 425 to 455.
Starting in childhood, his reign...
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Valentine (disambiguation), an
Anglicization of Valentinian, Valentinus, and
Valentinius Valentinianism, a
Gnostic movement founded by
Valentinus Valentinus (disambiguation)...
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Telegony influenced early Christianity as well. The
Gnostic followers of
Valentinius (circa 100–160 CE)
characteristically took the
concept from the physiological...
