Against the Valentinians
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3rd c. · Polemics & Heresiology · English translation, 1890
Source edition: The Ante-Nicene Fathers (ed. Roberts & Donaldson, 1885)
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Contents
- 1. Introductory. Tertullian Compares the Heresy to the Old Eleusinian…
- 2. These Heretics Brand the Christians as Simple Persons. The Charge Accepted…
- 3. The Folly of This Heresy. It Dissects and Mutilates the Deity. Contrasted…
- 4. The Heresy Traceable to Valentinus, an Able But Restless Man. Many…
- 5. Many Eminent Christian Writers Have Carefully and Fully Refuted the Heresy…
- 6. Although Writing in Latin He Proposes to Retain the Greek Names of the…
- 7. The First Eight Emanations, or Æons, Called the Ogdoad, are the Fountain of…
- 8. The Names and Descent of Other Æons; First Half a Score, Then Two More, and…
- 9. Other Capricious Features in the System. The Æons Unequal in Attributes. The…
- 10. Another Account of the Strange Aberrations of Sophia, and the Restraining…
- 11. The Profane Account Given of the Origin of Christ and the Holy Ghost…
- 12. The Strange Jumble of the Pleroma. The Frantic Delight of the Members…
- 13. First Part of the Subject, Touching the Constitution of the Pleroma…
- 14. The Adventures of Achamoth Outside the Pleroma. The Mission of Christ in…
- 15. Strange Account of the Origin of Matter, from the Various Affections of…
- 16. Achamoth Purified from All Impurities of Her Passion by the Paraclete…
- 17. Achamoth in Love with the Angels. A Protest Against the Lascivious Features…
- 18. Blasphemous Opinion Concerning the Origin of the Demiurge, Supposed to Be…
- 19. Palpable Absurdities and Contradictions in the System Respecting Achamoth…
- 20. The Demiurge Works Away at Creation, as the Drudge of His Mother Achamoth…
- 21. The Vanity as Well as Ignorance of the Demiurge. Absurd Results from So…
- 22. Origin of the Devil, in the Criminal Excess of the Sorrow of Achamoth. The…
- 23. The Relative Positions of the Pleroma. The Region of Achamoth, and the…
- 24. The Formation of Man by the Demiurge. Human Flesh Not Made of the Ground…
- 25. An Extravagant Way of Accounting for the Communication of the Spiritual…
- 26. The Three Several Natures—The Material, the Animal, and the Spiritual, and…
- 27. The Christ of the Demiurge, Sent into the World by the Virgin. Not of Her…
- 28. The Demiurge Cured of His Ignorance by the Saviour’s Advent, from Whom He…
- 29. The Three Natures Again Adverted to. They are All Exemplified Amongst Men…
- 30. The Lax and Dangerous Views of This Sect Respecting Good Works. That These…
- 31. At the Last Day Great Changes Take Place Amongst the Æons as Well as Among…
- 32. Indignant Irony Exposing the Valentinian Fable About the Judicial Treatment…
- 33. These Remaining Chapters an Appendix to the Main Work. In This Chapter…
- 34. Other Varying Opinions Among the Valentinians Respecting the Deity…
- 35. Yet More Discrepancies. Just Now the Sex of Bythus Was an Object of…
- 36. Less Reprehensible Theories in the Heresy. Bad is the Best of Valentinianism
- 37. Other Turgid and Ridiculous Theories About the Origin of the Æons and…
- 38. Diversity in the Opinions of Secundus, as Compared with the General…
- 39. Their Diversity of Sentiment Affects the Very Central Doctrine of…