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The Ethics of <i>The Tripartite Tractate</i> (NHC I, 5): A Study of Determinism and Early Christian Philosophy of Ethics de Paul Linjamaa

The Ethics of <i>The Tripartite Tractate</i> (NHC I, 5): A Study of Determinism and Early Christian Philosophy of Ethics: Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies, cartea 95

Autor Paul Linjamaa
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 19 iun 2019
In The Ethics of The Tripartite Tractate (NHC I, 5) Paul Linjamaa offers the first full length thematical monograph on the longest Valentinian text extant today. By investigating the ethics of The Tripartite Tractate, this study offers in-depth exploration of the text's ontology, epistemology, theory of will, and passions, as well as the anthropology and social setting of the text.
Valentinians have often been associated with determinism, which has been presented as “Gnostic” and then not taken seriously, or been disregarded as an invention of ancient intra-Christian polemics. Linjamaa challenges this conception and presents insights into how early Christian determinism actually worked, and how it effectively sustained viable and functioning ethics.
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ISBN-13: 9789004407756
ISBN-10: 9004407758
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies

Notă biografică

Paul Linjamaa, Ph.D. (2018), is a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies at Lund University, Sweden. He has previously published a monograph on Valentinianism and is the author of several articles on the Nag Hammadi texts and early Christianity.

Cuprins

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1 The Structure of the Present Study
2 Who Were the Valentinians?
3 The Myth in TriTrac and the Ethics in Storytelling
4 Previous Research on TriTrac and the Historical Setting of the Text
5 Early Christian Ethics and the Bad Reputation of Determinism
6 Notes on Translation and Transcription

Part 1: Theoretical Framework for Ethics


1 The Ontological and Epistemological Foundations for Ethics
1 Knowledge in TriTrac and Ancient Epistemology
2 Phantasms, Likenesses, and Images: the Ontology of TriTrac and the Question of Logos
3 Remembering (and) the Nature of Virtue
4 The Individual and the Collective
5 Mixing and Blending, Truth and Falsehood
6 Conclusion: Ontology, Epistemology and Ethics

2 Emotions, Demons, and Moral Ability
1 Emotions and Cognitive Theory in Ancient Thought
2 Emotions and the Creation Narrative
3 The Logos’ First Movement and Ancient Cognitive Theory
4 Good Emotions
5 Negative Passions as “Mixed” Heavenly Powers and their Influence on Humans
6 Apatheia, Therapeia, and Eleutheria
7 Femaleness and the Sickness of Emotions
8 Conclusion

3 Free Will and the Configuration of the Human Mind
1 Will and Ethics in Ancient Thought
2 Christian Free Will, the Configuration of God, and the Creation of the Cosmos
3 Free Will and Moral Accountability in TriTrac
4 TriTrac’s Anthropology in Context: Origen’s Christian Opponents

Part 2: Ethics in Practice


4 Natural Human Categories and Moral Progress
1 The Three Classes of Humans in TriTrac
2 The Pedagogical Purpose of the Logos’ Organization and the Composition of Humans
3 Three Categories of Humans According to TriTrac’s Epistemology and Theory of Passions
4 Restricted Choice in Practice
5 Fixed, Fluid, or in Flux? The Advantages of a Fixed Anthropology
6 Conclusions

5 School or Church? Teaching, Learning, and the Community Structure
1 On the Community Structure Behind TriTrac in Light of the Term “Church”
2 The Cosmos as a “School” in TriTrac and its Early Christian Context
3 The “School of Conduct” in the Pleroma and the Gaining of Form
4 The Cosmic School: an Imperfect Reflection of the Heavens
5 Silent and Oral Instruction: Formation, Baptism and Education
6 The Duty of the Pneumatic Moral Expert and the Formation of Psychic Christians
7 The Category of the ‘School of Valentinus’ in Early Christian Scholarship
8 Conclusions: the Dual Structure of the Community Behind TriTrac

6 Honor and Attitudes Toward Social and Political Involvement
1 TriTrac and Early Christian Attitudes Toward Involvement in Society
2 Cosmogony as Political Commentary
3 The Pursuit of Honor
4 Psychic Humans and their Political Involvement
5 Conclusion: the Character of Psychic Christians and Attitudes Toward Social and Ecclesiastical Involvement

Part 3: Conclusions and Implications


7 Summary: the Nature of Early Christian Determinism
1 TriTrac’s Alexandrian Context

Appendix: Implications and Suggestions for Further Studies
Bibliography
Ancient Authors and Texts
Secondary Literature
Index