By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2026-03-09T02:26:33-04:00December 11th, 2025|Tags: Christian History by the Century, Concepts of God, Early Jesus Followers, Irenaeus, Marcion, Valentinus|
The second century CE was a time of upheaval and creativity. Jesus’s followers wrestled with questions of identity, authority, and faith. Amid trauma and transformation, the century gave birth to Christianity’s astonishing diversity and its enduring theological foundations.
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2025-01-28T11:40:35-05:00February 5th, 2025|Tags: Gnosticism, Gospel of Thomas, Gospel of Truth, Nag Hammadi, Valentinus|
The Gospel of Truth is very psychologically penetrating, just basically talking about how we make our way in a world full of anxiety. Turning to religion or spirituality, it's a therapeutic kind of read. An interview with Dr. Dylan Burns
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2024-11-06T07:31:29-05:00November 6th, 2024|Tags: Ancient Writings, Gnosticism, Religious Boundaries, Valentinus|
There’s a comfortable mix between Jewish and Christian ideas, definitely. We have a writing that's coming from a group of Jesus followers who had inherited the teachings and ideas of James, the brother of Jesus. An interview with Dr. Samuel Zinner
By Mark M. Mattision|2024-04-22T22:09:08-04:00April 24th, 2024|Tags: Ancient Writings, Crucifixion, Gospel of Truth, Valentinus, Valentinus Series|
The Gospel of Truth is an inspiring example of Valentinus’s deeply spiritual teaching. It’s little wonder that he inspired so many of his students to become highly regarded teachers in their own right in the early days.
By Dr. Marko Marina|2024-07-28T20:41:20-04:00April 10th, 2024|Tags: Christian Heresies, Irenaeus, Material World, Nag Hammadi, Valentinus, Valentinus Series|
Despite Irenaeus's effort to discredit Valentinus's Christian contribution by sounding too strange, these Valentinian ideas were similar enough to some other authentic Valentinian texts to suggest that Irenaeus did not invent his "Great Account" entirely himself.
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)
By Dr. Marko Marina|2026-04-09T21:36:44-04:00October 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)
