Person
Valentinus
taught in Rome about 140–160
Christian teacher
Disputed. His Roman teaching is certain. Reconstructing his own doctrine from disciples and enemies is uncertain.
Valentinus was an influential teacher, traditionally from Egypt, whose students developed elaborate accounts of the divine fullness and of the origin of the material world. Irenaeus attacks a Valentinian system. The Gospel of Truth in the Nag Hammadi library is often, not universally, linked to his circle. He was not a cartoon dualist who simply hated the body.
Places
Councils
No council in this list names them as a participant.
Sources
No separate modern citation is attached to this biography. The confidence note is the atlas summary of the evidence.
Catalog editions
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