The Landscape Before the Religion

Wayist thinking in the world which produced Christianity — and why it speaks two languages Working article — preparatory material for Jesus the Wayist, 2nd edition. The Man Who Almost Changed Everything Around 140 CE, a theologian from Egypt arrived in Rome and came within a single vote of becoming its bishop. His name was Valentinus. He was educated in Alexandria — the intellectual capital of the ancient world — and by the time he reached Rome he had assembled, from decades of study and teaching, a picture of divine reality more sophisticated than anything orthodox Christianity would produce for another thousand years.