Valentinus' Legacy and Polyphony of Voices

This book challenges the popular use of ‘Valentinian’ to describe a Christian school of thought in the second century CE by analysing documents ascribed to ‘Valentinians’ by early Christian Apologists, and more recently by modern scholars after the discovery of codices near Nag Hammadi in Egypt.

To this end, Ashwin-Siejkowski highlights the great diversity of views among Christian...