Valentinianism

noun

Val·​en·​tin·​i·​an·​ism

plural -s

: gnosticism in which the divine pleroma is conceived as being made up of aeons that are held to be aspects of the nature and activity of God

Word History

Etymology

valentinian + -ism

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