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Valentinus (Gr****: Οὐαλεντῖνος; c. 100 – c. 180 CE) was the best
known and, for a time, most
successful early Christian Gnostic theologian. He founded...
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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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Gnostic Valentinus. The
source of this
connection is the
testimony of
Valentinius'
followers and
Clement of Alexandria. It has been
proposed by some that...
- 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...
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Valentinian I (Latin: Valentini****; 321 – 17
November 375), also
known as
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...
- 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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Kenoma was used by the mid-2nd
century Gnostic thinker and
preacher Valentinius, who was
among the
early Christians who
attempted to
align Christianity...
- semi-Christians of
diverse views congregated in Rome,
notably Marcion and
Valentinius, and in the
following century there were
schisms connected with Hippolytus...
