Studies In Gnosticism And Alexandrian Christianity
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Studies In Gnosticism And Alexandrian Christianity
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Author : R. van den Broek
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 1996
Studies In Gnosticism And Alexandrian Christianity written by R. van den Broek and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Religion categories.
Most of the fifteen studies of this volume deal with the mythological and theological ideas found in various Nag Hammadi writings, especially the views, gnostic and non-gnostic alike, on creation and salvation and on the nature of God.
Gnostic Revisions Of Genesis Stories And Early Jesus Traditions
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Author : Gerard P. Luttikhuizen
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2006
Gnostic Revisions Of Genesis Stories And Early Jesus Traditions written by Gerard P. Luttikhuizen and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Religion categories.
The book examines the critical use of biblical and early Christian traditions in such Christian-Gnostic texts as the Apocryphon of John, The Nature of the Archons, The Apocalypse of Adam, The Testimony of Truth, The Apocalypse of Peter, The Letter of Peter to Philip, and the apocryphal Acts of John.
Cambridge History Of Christianity Volume 1 Origins To Constantine
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Author : Margaret M. Mitchell
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Cambridge History Of Christianity Volume 1 Origins To Constantine written by Margaret M. Mitchell and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
Gnostic Religion In Antiquity
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Author : R. van den Broek
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-01-24
Gnostic Religion In Antiquity written by R. van den Broek and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-24 with History categories.
An examination of Gnostic religion in Late Antiquity within its historical and religious context, using Greek, Latin and Coptic sources.
Studies In Gnosticism And Hellenistic Religions
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Author : Gilles Quispel
language : en
Publisher: Brill Archive
Release Date : 1981
Studies In Gnosticism And Hellenistic Religions written by Gilles Quispel and has been published by Brill Archive this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Religion categories.
A Companion To Second Century Christian Heretics
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Author : Antti Marjanen
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2008
A Companion To Second Century Christian Heretics written by Antti Marjanen and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Religion categories.
The book deals with thinkers and movements that were embraced by many second-century religious seekers but which are now largely forgotten or known only as "heretics": Basilides, Sethianism, Valentinus' school, Marcion, Tatian, Bardaisan, Montanists, Cerinthus, Ebionites, Nazarenes, Jewish-Christianity of the "Pseudo-Clementines," and Elchasites.
Cosmology And Fate In Gnosticism And Graeco Roman Antiquity
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Author : Nicola F. Denzey
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2013-04-09
Cosmology And Fate In Gnosticism And Graeco Roman Antiquity written by Nicola F. Denzey and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-09 with History categories.
In Cosmology and Fate in Gnosticism and Graeco-Roman Antiquity, Nicola Denzey Lewis dismisses Hans Jonas' mischaracterization of second-century Gnosticism as a philosophically-oriented religious movement built on the perception of the cosmos as negative or enslaving. A focused study on the concept of astrological fate in “Gnostic” writings including the Apocryphon of John, the recently-discovered Gospel of Judas, Trimorphic Protennoia, and the Pistis Sophia, this book reexamines their language of “enslavement to fate (Gk: heimarmene)” from its origins in Greek Stoicism, its deployment by the apostle Paul, to its later use by a variety of second-century intellectuals (both Christian and non-Christian). Denzey Lewis thus offers an informed and revisionist conceptual map of the ancient cosmos, its influence, and all those who claimed to be free of its potentially pernicious effects.
Paradise Reconsidered In Gnostic Mythmaking
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Author : Tuomas Rasimus
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2009-10-31
Paradise Reconsidered In Gnostic Mythmaking written by Tuomas Rasimus and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-31 with Religion categories.
This book offers a new understanding of Sethianism and the origins of Gnosticism by examining the mythology in and social reality behind a group of texts to which certain leaders of the early church occasionally attached the label ‘Ophite.’ In the unique Ophite mythology, which rewrites the Genesis paradise story and is attested, for example, in Irenaeus’ Adversus haereses 1.30, The Apocryphon of John and On the Origin of the World, the snake’s advice to eat of the tree of knowledge is considered positive, the creator and his angels are turned into demonic beasts and the true Godhead is presented as an androgynous heavenly projection of Adam and Eve. It is argued that Hans-Martin Schenke’s influential model of the ‘Sethian system’ only reveals part of a larger whole to which the Ophite material belongs as an important and organic component.
The Sentences Of Sextus And The Origins Of Christian Ascetiscism
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Author : Daniele Pevarello
language : en
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Release Date : 2013-11-19
The Sentences Of Sextus And The Origins Of Christian Ascetiscism written by Daniele Pevarello and has been published by Mohr Siebeck this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-19 with Religion categories.
Daniele Pevarello analyzes the Sentences of Sextus, a second century collection of Greek aphorisms compiled by Sextus, an otherwise unknown Christian author. The specific character of Sextus' collection lies in the fact that the Sentences are a Christian rewriting of Hellenistic sayings, some of which are still preserved in pagan gnomologies and in Porphyry. Pevarello investigates the problem of continuity and discontinuity between the ascetic tendencies of the Christian compiler and aphorisms promoting self-control in his pagan sources. In particular, he shows how some aspects of the Stoic, Cynic, Platonic and Pythagorean moral traditions, such as sexual restraint, voluntary poverty, the practice of silence and of a secluded life were creatively combined with Sextus' ascetic agenda against the background of the biblical tradition. Drawing on this adoption of Hellenistic moral traditions, Pevarello shows how great a part the moral tradition of Greek paideia played in the shaping and development of self-restraint among early Christian ascetics.
Poetics Of The Gnostic Universe
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Author : Zlatko Pleše
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2006-07-01
Poetics Of The Gnostic Universe written by Zlatko Pleše and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-07-01 with Religion categories.
This volume is both an essay in Gnostic poetics and a study in the history of early Christian appropriation of ancient philosophy. The object of study is the cosmological model of the Apocryphon of John, a first-hand and fully narrated version of the Gnostic myth. The author examines his target text against a complex background of religious and philosophical systems, literary theories, and rhetorical techniques of the period, and argues that the world model of the Apocryphon of John is inseparable from the epistemological, theological, and aesthetic debates within contemporary Platonism. Poetics of the Gnostic Universe also discusses the composition and narrative logic of the Apocryphon of John, explores its revisionist attitude towards various literary models (Plato’s Timaeus, Wisdom literature, Genesis), and analyzes its peculiar discursive strategy of conjoining seemingly disconnected symbolic ‘codes’ while describing the derivation of a multi-layered universe from a single transcendent source.