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The Secret Book of John

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Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1594733686
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (947 download)

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Download or read book The Secret Book of John written by and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2012-12-14 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ancient Gnostic text can be a companion for your own spiritual quest The Secret Book of John is the most significant and influential text of the ancient Gnostic religion. Part of the library of books found in Nag Hammadi, Egypt, in 1945, this central myth of Gnosticism tells the story of how God fell from perfect Oneness to imprisonment in the material world, and how by knowing our divine nature and our divine origins—that we are one with God—we reverse God’s descent and find our salvation. The Secret Book of John: The Gnostic Gospel—Annotated & Explained decodes the principal themes, historical foundation, and spiritual contexts of this challenging yet fundamental Gnostic teaching. Drawing connections to Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, kabbalistic Judaism, and Sufism, Davies focuses on the mythology and psychology of the Gnostic religious quest. He illuminates the Gnostics’ ardent call for self-awareness and introspection, and the empowering message that divine wholeness will be restored not by worshiping false gods in an illusory material world but by our recognition of the inherent divinity within ourselves. Now you can experience and understand this foundational teaching even if you have no previous knowledge of Gnosticism. This SkyLight Illuminations edition presents the most important and valued book in Gnostic religion with insightful yet unobtrusive commentary. It provides deeper insight into the understanding that in Gnosticism the distinction between savior and saved ceases to exist—you must save yourself and in doing so save God.

The Secret Revelation of John

Author : Karen L. King
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674019034
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Secret Revelation of John written by Karen L. King and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-28 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lost in antiquity, rediscovered in 1896, and only recently accessible for study, The Secret Revelation of John offers a firsthand look into the diversity of Christianity before the establishment of canon and creed. Karen L. King offers an illuminating reading of this ancient text--a narrative of the creation of the universe and humanity and a guide to justice and salvation, said to be Christ's revelation to his disciple John. Freeing the Revelation from the category of "Gnosticism" to which such accounts were relegated, King shows how the Biblical text could be read by early Christians in radical and revisionary ways. By placing the Revelation in its social and intellectual milieu, she revises our understanding of early Christianity and, more generally, religious thought in the ancient Mediterranean world. Her work helps the modern reader through many intriguing--but confusing--ideas in the text: for example, that the creator god of Genesis, a self-described jealous and exclusive god, is not the true Deity but a kind of fallen angel; or, in an overt critique of patriarchy unique in ancient literature, the declaration that the subordination of woman to man was an ignorant act in direct violation of the "holy height." In King's analysis, the Revelation becomes not strange but a comprehensible religious vision--and a window on the religious culture of the Roman Empire. A translation of the complete Secret Revelation of John is included.

Gnostic Truth and Christian Heresy

Author : A. H. B. Logan
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780567097330
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (973 download)

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Download or read book Gnostic Truth and Christian Heresy written by A. H. B. Logan and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Redeemed Image of God

Author : Susan Windley-Daoust
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780761824398
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book The Redeemed Image of God written by Susan Windley-Daoust and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2002 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Redeemed Image of God examines the classical development of imago Dei, the image of God, in Christian theology, and reconstructs the doctrine in order to recover the role of the image in redemption and the importance of human embodiment in salvific relationships. The author argues that the imago Dei is the point of contact that enables a rich web of relationships to others, but most importantly the redemptive relationship to the Other, God

Studia Patristica. Volume XLVII

Author : Jane Baun
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789042923737
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (237 download)

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Download or read book Studia Patristica. Volume XLVII written by Jane Baun and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers presented at the Fifteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 2007 (see also Studia Patristica 44, 45, 46, 48 and 49). The successive sets of Studia Patristica contain papers delivered at the International Conferences on Patristic Studies, which meet for a week once every four years in Oxford; they are held under the aegis of the Theology Faculty of the University. Members of these conferences come from all over the world and most offer papers. These range over the whole field, both East and West, from the second century to a section on the Nachleben of the Fathers. The majority are short papers dealing with some small and manageable point; they raise and sometimes resolve questions about the authenticity of documents, dates of events, and such like, and some unveil new texts. The smaller number of longer papers put such matters into context and indicate wider trends. The whole reflects the state of Patristic scholarship and demonstrates the vigour and popularity of the subject.

Pandora's Book

Author : David Birch
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178904572X
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Pandora's Book written by David Birch and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-25 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trees occupy a place of enormous significance, not only in our planet’s web of life but also in our psyche. A Spell in the Forest - Tongues in Trees is part love-song, part poetic guidebook, and part exploration of thirteen native sacred British tree species. Tongues in Trees is a multi-layered contribution to the current awareness of the importance and significance of trees and the resurgence of interest in their place on our planet and in our hearts.

The Philosophy of Early Christianity

Author : George Karamanolis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429628234
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Early Christianity written by George Karamanolis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-30 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition introduces the reader to the philosophy of early Christianity in the second to fourth centuries AD, and contextualizes the philosophical contributions of early Christians in the framework of the ancient philosophical debates. It examines the first attempts of Christian thinkers to engage with issues such as questions of cosmogony and first principles, freedom of choice, concept formation, and the body–soul relation, as well as later questions like the status of the divine persons of the Trinity. It also aims to show that the philosophy of early Christianity is part of ancient philosophy as a distinct school of thought, being in constant dialogue with the ancient philosophical schools, such as Platonism, Aristotelianism, Stoicism, and even Epicureanism and Scepticism. This book examines in detail the philosophical views of Christian thinkers such as Justin Martyr, Clement of Alexandria, Irenaeus, Tertullian, Origen, Basil, and Gregory of Nyssa, and sheds light in the distinct ways they conceptualized traditional philosophical issues and made some intriguing contributions. The book’s core chapters survey the central philosophical concerns of the early Christian thinkers and examines their contributions. These range across natural philosophy, metaphysics, logic and epistemology, psychology, and ethics, and include such questions as how the world came into being, how God relates to the world, the status of matter, how we can gain knowledge, in what sense humans have freedom of choice, what the nature of soul is and how it relates to the body, and how we can attain happiness and salvation. This revised edition takes into account the recent developments in the area of later ancient philosophy, especially in the philosophy of Early Christianity, and integrates them in the relevant chapters, some of which are now heavily expanded. The Philosophy of Early Christianity remains a crucial introduction to the subject for undergraduate and postgraduate students of ancient philosophy and early Christianity, across the disciplines of classics, history, and theology.

Simon of Samaria and the Simonians

Author : M. David Litwa
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567712982
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (677 download)

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Download or read book Simon of Samaria and the Simonians written by M. David Litwa and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-07 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who were the Simonians? Beginning in the mid-second century CE, heresiologists depicted them as licentious followers of the first gnostic, a supposedly Samarian self-deifier called Simon, who was thought to practice magic and became known as the father of all heresies. Litwa examines the Simonians in their own literature and in the literature used to refute and describe them. He begins with Simonian primary sources, namely The Declaration of Great Power (embedded in the anonymous Refutation of All Heresies) and The Concept of Our Great Power (Nag Hammadi codex VI,4). Litwa argues that both are early second-century products of Simonian authors writing in Alexandria or Egypt. Litwa then moves on to examine the heresiological sources related to the Simonians (Justin, the book of Acts, Irenaeus, the author of the Refutation of All Heresies, Pseudo-Tertullian, Epiphanius, and Filaster). He shows how closely connected Justin's report is to the portrait of Simon in Acts, and offers an extensive exegesis and analysis of Simonian theology and practice based on the reports of Irenaeus and the Refutator. Finally, Litwa examines Simonianism in novelistic sources, namely the Acts of Peter and the Pseudo-Clementines. By the time these sources were written, Simon had become the father of all heresies. Accordingly, virtually any heresy could be attributed to Simon. As a result-despite their alluring portraits of Simon-these sources are mostly unusable for the historical study of the Simonian Christian movement. Litwa concludes with a historical profile of the Simonian movement in the second and third centuries. The book features appendices which contain Litwa's own translations of primary Simonian texts.

Dualism in the Palestinian-Syrian Region During the First Century A.D. Until Ca.140

Author : P F M Fontaine
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004674012
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Dualism in the Palestinian-Syrian Region During the First Century A.D. Until Ca.140 written by P F M Fontaine and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-14 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Legacy of John

Author : Tuomas Rasimus
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004176330
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book The Legacy of John written by Tuomas Rasimus and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume investigates the early, second-century reception of the Fourth Gospel. This is an era when its fortunes are surrounded by silence and mystery. It was assumed, until quite recently, that Gnostic and other so-called heterodox groups were the first ones to appreciate this gospel, and hence the mainstream Christians avoided using it until Irenaeus rescued it for the church. Lately, this view has been challenged by several scholars for several reasons. The contributions in this volume, written by leading specialists in their respective fields, offer an approachable, fresh, comprehensive and up-to-date view of the second-century reception of John s Gospel, in a situation where new understandings about various forms of early Christianity and its multiformity have started to emerge.

Gnostic Revisions of Genesis Stories And Early Jesus Traditions

Author : Gerard P. Luttikhuizen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004145109
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Gnostic Revisions of Genesis Stories And Early Jesus Traditions written by Gerard P. Luttikhuizen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Nag Hammadi Library after Fifty Years

Author : Turner
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004439749
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Nag Hammadi Library after Fifty Years written by Turner and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains 22 papers originally delivered at the Society of Biblical Literature's 1995 commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the Nag Hammadi Library. Of these papers, five focus on the theme "Past, Present, and Future Research on the Nag Hammadi Codices" (J.M. Robinson, S. Emmel, B.A. Pearson, H.-M. Schenke, E.M. Yamauchi); thirteen stem from three seminars respectively devoted to the Apocryphon of John (M. Waldstein, F. Wisse, K.L. King, and S. LaPorta), the Gospel of Thomas and the Thomasine tradition (P.-H. Poirier, P.H. Sellew, J.-M. Sevrin, I. Dunderberg, S.R. Johnson, A. DeConick), and the Gospel of Philip ( E. Pagels, E. Thomassen, M. Turner); and two deal with the Valentinian school (C. Markschies, L. Painchaud & T. Janz).

Images of the Feminine in Gnosticism

Author : Karen L. King
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9781563383311
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book Images of the Feminine in Gnosticism written by Karen L. King and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2000-09-01 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on the feminine face of God in Gnostic philsophy and theology are collected in a fascinating introduction to this early and often persecuted strand of Christian thought. Original.

Before Valentinus: The Gnostics of Irenaeus

Author : Einar Thomassen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004677895
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Book Synopsis Before Valentinus: The Gnostics of Irenaeus by : Einar Thomassen

Download or read book Before Valentinus: The Gnostics of Irenaeus written by Einar Thomassen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-21 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the first detailed commentary on the Gnostic treatises reported by Irenaeus in Adversus Haereses 1.29–30. It is argued that these texts represent the earliest tangible layer of the Gnostic literary tradition and served as sources for the Apocryphon of John and other later works. They also formed the starting point for Valentinus and his followers, who sought to reconcile the ideas of the Gnostics with apostolic Christianity. The book also shows that Irenaeus and later heresiologists referred to “the Gnostics” as a specific group among the great mass of heretics.

Conceptualising Concepts in Greek Philosophy

Author : Gábor Betegh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009369571
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)

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Book Synopsis Conceptualising Concepts in Greek Philosophy by : Gábor Betegh

Download or read book Conceptualising Concepts in Greek Philosophy written by Gábor Betegh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of seminal philosophical studies on the ancient Greek views regarding the nature, formation, and conceptualisation of concept.

Analogia

Author : Maximos Constas
Publisher : ST MAXIM THE GREEK INSTITUTE
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book Analogia written by Maximos Constas and published by ST MAXIM THE GREEK INSTITUTE. This book was released on 2022-03-04 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analogia is a peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to the scholarly exposition and discussion of the theological principles of the Christian faith. A distinguishing feature of this journal will be the effort to advance a dialogue between Orthodox Christianity and the views and concerns of Western modes of theological and philosophical thought. A key secondary objective is to provide a scholarly context for the further examination and study of common Christian sources. Though theological and philosophical topics of interest are the primary focus of the journal, the content of Analogia will not be restricted to material that originates exclusively from these disciplines. Insofar as the journal seeks to cultivate theological discourse and engagement with the urgent challenges and questions posed by modernity, topics from an array of disciplines will also be considered, including the natural and social sciences. As such, solicited and unsolicited submissions of high academic quality containing topics of either a theological or interdisciplinary nature will be encouraged. In an effort to facilitate dialogue, provision will be made for peer-reviewed critical responses to articles that deal with high-interest topics. Analogia strives to provide an interdisciplinary forum wherein Christian theology is further explored and assumes the role of an interlocutor with the multiplicity of difficulties facing modern humanity.

The Philosophy and Science of Roger Bacon

Author : Nicola Polloni
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000377709
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy and Science of Roger Bacon written by Nicola Polloni and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Philosophy and Science of Roger Bacon offers new insights and research perspectives on one of the most intriguing characters of the Middle Ages, Roger Bacon. At the intersections between science and philosophy, the volume analyses central aspects of Bacon’s reflections on how nature and society can be perfected. The volume dives into the intertwining of Bacon’s philosophical stances on nature, substantial change, and hylomorphism with his scientific discussion of music, alchemy, and medicine. The Philosophy and Science of Roger Bacon also investigates Bacon’s projects of education reform and his epistemological and theological ground maintaining that humans and God are bound by wisdom, and therefore science. Finally, the volume examines how Bacon’s doctrines are related to a wider historical context, particularly in consideration of Peter John Olivi, John Pecham, Peter of Ireland, and Robert Grosseteste. The Philosophy and Science of Roger Bacon is a crucial tool for scholars and students working in the history of philosophy and science and also for a broader audience interested in Roger Bacon and his long-lasting contribution to the history of ideas.