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Ausgabe:

März/2022

Spalte:

217–218

Kategorie:

Kirchengeschichte: Alte Kirche, Christliche Archäologie

Autor/Hrsg.:

Kingreen, Sarah-Magdalena

Titel/Untertitel:

Tertullians Schrift »Adversus Valentinianos«. Die argumentative Widersetzung Tertullians gegen die Valentinianer als ein in rhetorischer Perspektive geschlossenes Werk.

Verlag:

Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2020. XIV, 496 S. = Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum, 120. Kart. EUR 104,00. ISBN 9783161596025.

Rezensent:

Einar Thomassen

Tertullian wrote a book against the Valentinians. Why he wanted to do so is not evident, since as far as we can tell there were no Valentinians to be confronted in his African environment. Moreover, Tertullian had no information to offer about Valentinian doctrines and practices beyond what had already been made known by Irenaeus, whom he simply plagiarises in his presentation of Valentinian teachings. His motives for writing the book must therefore lie elsewhere. It may well be that he saw his project primarily as an opportunity to display his own rhetorical skills and that he felt able to improve on Irenaeus, omnium doctrinarum curiosissimus explorator (5.1) by putting them to work.
It is Tertullian’s use of rhetoric that forms the focus of Sarah-Magdalena Kingreen’s ...


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