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Tables of Contents for Gnostic Return in Modernity
Chapter/Section Title
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Acknowledgments
ix
 
Introduction
1
22
Part I. Baurian Model of Gnostic Return and Its Challenges
Redeeming and Reconstructing Baur's Model of Gnostic Return
23
26
Summary
46
3
Baurian Gnostic Genealogical Model and Its Contestation
49
50
Historicist Challenge: Hans Blumenberg and Epochal Shift
50
15
Agon between Gnostic Baurian and Non-Gnostic Genealogies
65
34
Summary
88
11
Part II. Toward Valentinian Narrative Grammar
Classical Valentinian Narratives: Variety and Unity
99
38
Ptolemy's Valentinian Gnostic System
102
8
The Gospel of Truth
110
8
The Tripartite Tractate
118
19
Summary
135
2
Valentinian Narrative Grammar: Irenaean Gestures and the Phenomenon of Valentinian Enlisting
137
42
The Contributions of Irenaeus: Developing the Grammatical Hints
143
24
Valentinianism's Relation to Other Narrative Discourses
167
12
Genealogical Capability of Valentinian Narrative Grammar
179
48
Justifying the Protestant Identification of the Baurian Line
181
15
Baurian Line and Rule-Governed Deformation of Classical Valentinian Genres
196
11
Valentinian Enlisting of Non-Valentinian Narrative Discourses
207
20
Summary
225
2
Conclusion
227
10
Notes
237
58
Index
295