The Gnostic Empire Strikes Back
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The Gnostic Empire Strikes Back
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Author : Peter Jones
language : en
Publisher: Presbyterian & Reformed Publishing Company
Release Date : 1992
The Gnostic Empire Strikes Back written by Peter Jones and has been published by Presbyterian & Reformed Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Religion categories.
The Gnostics
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Author : Jacques Lacarriere
language : en
Publisher: City Lights Books
Release Date : 1989
The Gnostics written by Jacques Lacarriere and has been published by City Lights Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Philosophy categories.
This inquiry into Gnosticism examines the character, history, and beliefs of a brave and vigorous spiritual quest that originated in the ancient Near East and continues into the present day.
The Gnostics
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Author : Andrew Phillip Smith Author
language : en
Publisher: Duncan Baird Publishers
Release Date : 2012-01-03
The Gnostics written by Andrew Phillip Smith Author and has been published by Duncan Baird Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-03 with Religion categories.
The Gnostics is a one-stop guide to everything you need to know about this mystical movement that teaches knowledge of God rather than unquestioning faith.
The Gospel Of The Gnostics
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Author : Duncan Greenlees
language : en
Publisher: Book Tree
Release Date : 2006-10
The Gospel Of The Gnostics written by Duncan Greenlees and has been published by Book Tree this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-10 with Gnosticism categories.
Recommended by top scholars in the field of Gnostic studies for many years, but has been virtually impossible to find until now. One of the best books on the subject, essential for any serious researcher. A virtual gold mine of Gnostic material, some translated and presented here for the first time.
The Gnostics
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Author : David Brakke
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2011
The Gnostics written by David Brakke and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Religion categories.
Brakke writes a pioneering study of the way the demon role relates to religious thinking and to cultural anxieties. The author's sources include biographies of exceptional monks, collections of monastic sayings and stories, letters from ascetic teachers to their disciples, sermons, community rules, and biblical commentaries. When monks imagined the resistance that they had to overcome in cultivating their selves or the temptation that offered an easier path, they saw supernatural beings that could take the shapes of animals, women, boys, and false angels in their attempts to seduce monks away from their devotion to God. And when they considered the inclinations in their own selves that opposed their best intentions, they concluded that demons introduced such problematic "thoughts" to their minds. Although the last twenty years has seen an explosion of scholarship on early Christian asceticism, producing brilliant explorations of the body, sexual renunciation, fasting, and gender, combat with demons has been left relatively unexplored.
The Gnostic Bible
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Author : Willis Barnstone
language : en
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Release Date : 2009-06-30
The Gnostic Bible written by Willis Barnstone and has been published by Shambhala Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-30 with Religion categories.
A collection of Gnostic texts spanning centuries, geographical locations, and cultural traditions—“a wonderful achievement” (Elaine Pagels, author of The Gnostic Gospels) Gnosticism was a wide-ranging religious movement of the first millennium CE—with earlier antecedents and later flourishings—whose adherents sought salvation through knowledge and personal religious experience. Gnostic writings offer striking perspectives on both early Christian and non-Christian thought. For example, some gnostic texts suggest that god should be celebrated as both mother and father, and that self-knowledge is the supreme path to the divine. Only in the past fifty years has it become clear how far the gnostic influence spread in ancient and medieval religions—and what a marvelous body of scriptures it produced. The selections gathered here in poetic, readable translation represent Jewish, Christian, Hermetic, Mandaean, Manichaean, Islamic, and Cathar expressions of gnostic spirituality. Their regions of origin include Egypt, the Greco-Roman world, the Middle East, Syria, Iraq, China, and France. Also included are introductions, notes, an extensive glossary, and a wealth of suggestions for further reading.
The Gnostic New Age
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Author : April D. DeConick
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2016-09-27
The Gnostic New Age written by April D. DeConick and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-27 with Religion categories.
Gnosticism is a countercultural spirituality that forever changed the practice of Christianity. Before it emerged in the second century, passage to the afterlife required obedience to God and king. Gnosticism proposed that human beings were manifestations of the divine, unsettling the hierarchical foundations of the ancient world. Subversive and revolutionary, Gnostics taught that prayer and mediation could bring human beings into an ecstatic spiritual union with a transcendent deity. This mystical strain affected not just Christianity but many other religions, and it characterizes our understanding of the purpose and meaning of religion today. In The Gnostic New Age, April D. DeConick recovers this vibrant underground history to prove that Gnosticism was not suppressed or defeated by the Catholic Church long ago, nor was the movement a fabrication to justify the violent repression of alternative forms of Christianity. Gnosticism alleviated human suffering, soothing feelings of existential brokenness and alienation through the promise of renewal as God. DeConick begins in ancient Egypt and follows with the rise of Gnosticism in the Middle Ages, the advent of theosophy and other occult movements in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and contemporary New Age spiritual philosophies. As these theories find expression in science-fiction and fantasy films, DeConick sees evidence of Gnosticism's next incarnation. Her work emphasizes the universal, countercultural appeal of a movement that embodies much more than a simple challenge to religious authority.
The Gnostic Bible
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Author : Willis Barnstone
language : en
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Release Date : 2006
The Gnostic Bible written by Willis Barnstone and has been published by Shambhala Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Religion categories.
The most comprehensive collection of gnostic literature ever published, this volume is the result of a unique collaboration between a renowned poet-translator and a leading scholar of early Christian texts.
The Gnostics
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Author : Tobias Churton
language : en
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Publishing
Release Date : 1997
The Gnostics written by Tobias Churton and has been published by Barnes & Noble Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Christian heresies categories.
The Greek word 'gnosis' means knowledge; the Gnostics themselves used it to refer to the spiritual knowledge they believed would redeem them from what they regarded as the inherent evil of the material universe. As a mystical alternative tradition within Christianity, Gnosticism suffered the hostility of the official church and, as a result, remains largely unknown or misunderstood to this day.
Revival Of The Gnostic Heresy
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Author : Joe E. Morris
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Release Date : 2008-11-15
Revival Of The Gnostic Heresy written by Joe E. Morris and has been published by Palgrave MacMillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11-15 with Religion categories.
In this rigorous analysis, Morris draws parallels between Fundamentalist methods of biblical interpretation and the early Christian heresy of Gnosticism.