Valentinus Series Archives | Bible and Beyond

In late 2023 we ran a series of four blog posts on Valentinus by Dr. Marko Marina. Learn about this interesting and enigmatic figure in early Christianity.

“Summer Harvest” by Valentinus: Revealing Two Aspects of Reality, Not Two Realities

By Dr. Marko Marina|2023-11-20T04:57:42-05:00November 20th, 2023|Tags: Material World, Noncanonical Texts, Plato, Valentinus, Valentinus Series|

There are no radically negative views on this world and its creation and no particularly positive views of the material world, either. So the essential message of Valentinus’s poem is that everything eventually depends on the divine realm. (Part 2 of 4)

Valentinus: Ancient Heretic or True Christian?

By Dr. Marko Marina|2023-11-20T04:57:04-05:00October 18th, 2023|Tags: Christian Canon, Christian Heresies, Christianity, Gnosticism, Valentinus, Valentinus Series|

Modern scholarship has, therefore, painted a much more complex picture of early Christianity. It was a fluid world with different streams, communities, and leaders. And Valentinus was among them! (Part 1 of 4)