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Author : Bianchi
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004378030
Total Pages : 840 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The Origins of Gnosticism / Le origini dello gnosticismo written by Bianchi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1970-06-01 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 804 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (491 download)
Download or read book Le Origini dello gnosticismo,... 13-18 aprile 1966 written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ugo Bianchi
Publisher : Brill Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 854 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Le Origini Dello Gnosticismo written by Ugo Bianchi and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1967 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. van den Broek
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107031370
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Gnostic Religion in Antiquity written by R. van den Broek and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-24 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of Gnostic religion in Late Antiquity within its historical and religious context, using Greek, Latin and Coptic sources.
Author : Einar Thomassen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110705893
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Coherence of “Gnosticism” written by Einar Thomassen and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Gnosticism” has become a problematic category in the study of early Christianity. It obscures diversity, invites essentialist generalisations, and is a legacy of ancient heresiology. However, simply to conclude with “diversity” is unsatisfying, and new efforts to discern coherence and to synthesise need to be made. The present work seeks to make a fresh start by concentrating on Irenaeus’ report on a specific group called the “Gnostics” and on his claim that Valentinus and his followers were inspired by their ideas. Following this lead, an attempt is made to trace the continuity of ideas from this group to Valentinianism. The study concludes that there is more continuity than has previously been recognised. Irenaeus’ “Gnostics” emerge as the predecessors not only of Valentinianism, but also of Sethianism. They represent an early, philosophically inspired form of Christ religion that arose independently of the New Testament canon. Christology is essential and provides the basis for the myth of Sophia. The book is relevant for all students of Christian origins and the early history of the Church.
Author : Bianchi
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004378561
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Selected Essays on Gnosticism, Dualism, and Mysteriosophy written by Bianchi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1978-06-01 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary Material /Ugo Bianchi -- Le dualisme en histoire des religions /Ugo Bianchi -- Il Dualismo come categoria storico-religiosa /Ugo Bianchi -- Der demiurgische Trickster und die Religionsethnologie /Ugo Bianchi -- Trickster e demiurgi presso culture primitive di cacciatori /Ugo Bianchi -- Pour l'histoire du dualisme: un Coyote africain, le Renard Pâle /Ugo Bianchi -- Seth, Osiris et l'ethnographie /Ugo Bianchi -- Prometheus, der titanische Trickster /Ugo Bianchi -- Dualistic Aspects of Thracian Religion /Ugo Bianchi -- Initiation, mystères, gnose /Ugo Bianchi -- Péché originel et péché « antécédent » /Ugo Bianchi -- L'orphisme a existé /Ugo Bianchi -- Psyche and Destiny /Ugo Bianchi -- Mithraism and Gnosticism /Ugo Bianchi -- Le problème des origines du gnosticisme et l'histoire des religions /Ugo Bianchi -- Perspectives de la recherche sur les origines du gnosticisme /Ugo Bianchi -- Gnostizismus und Anthropologie /Ugo Bianchi -- Docetism /Ugo Bianchi -- Anthropologie et conception du mal les sources de l'exegese gnostique /Ugo Bianchi -- Marcion: théologien biblique ou docteur gnostique? /Ugo Bianchi -- Basilide, o del tragico /Ugo Bianchi -- Le fonti del dualismo di Bardesane /Ugo Bianchi -- La rédemption dans les Livres d'Adam /Ugo Bianchi -- La doctrine Zarathustrienne des deux esprits /Ugo Bianchi -- Alcuni aspetti abnormi del dualismo persiano /Ugo Bianchi -- Aspects of Modern Parsi Theology /Ugo Bianchi -- A propos de quelques discussions récentes sur la terminologie, la définition et la méthode de l'étude du gnosticisme /Ugo Bianchi -- Modern Authors /Ugo Bianchi -- Index Locorum /Ugo Bianchi -- Subject Index /Ugo Bianchi -- Errata /Ugo Bianchi.
Author : Diego Kurilo
Publisher : Sophia Lux
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Gnostics and Their Archetypes written by Diego Kurilo and published by Sophia Lux. This book was released on with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gnosis, derived from the ancient Greek γνῶσις (gnō̂ sis), meaning "knowledge", or also known as gnosticism, a Latinized form of γνωστικισμός (gnōstikismós), is a scientific-religious term that encompasses various teachings and religious groups that flourished in the late 19th century. 1st century and had their peak between the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD, acting as precursors of later currents. We could think that within these movements of connoisseurs many Christianities of a Gnostic nature perished, since Christianity was born as a broad set of spiritual movements based on the life of Jesus of Nazareth. The Christianity proposed by Paul of Tarsus triumphed and the Gnostic movements fell into disgrace and were considered heretical.
Author : David G. Robertson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350137715
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Gnosticism and the History of Religions written by David G. Robertson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-12 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on critical work in biblical studies, which shows how a historically-bounded heretical tradition called Gnosticism was 'invented', this work focuses on the following stage in which it was “essentialised” into a sui generis, universal category of religion. At the same time, it shows how Gnosticism became a religious self-identifier, with a number of sizable contemporary groups identifying as Gnostics today, drawing on the same discourses. This book provides a history of this problematic category, and its relationship with scholarly and popular discourse on religion in the twentieth century. It uses a critical-historical method to show how and why Gnosis, Gnostic and Gnosticism were taken up by specific groups and individuals – practitioners and scholars – at different times. It shows how ideas about Gnosticism developed in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century scholarship, drawing from continental phenomenology, Jungian psychology and post-Holocaust theology, to be constructed as a perennial religious current based on special knowledge of the divine in a corrupt world. David G. Robertson challenges how scholars interact with the category Gnosticism, and contributes to our understanding of the complex relationship between primary sources, academics and practitioners in category formation.
Author : Mircea Eliade
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022602735X
Total Pages : 581 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book A History of Religious Ideas, Volume 2 written by Mircea Eliade and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-12-16 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In volume 2 of this monumental work, Mircea Eliade continues his magisterial progress through the history of religious ideas. The religions of ancient China, Brahmanism and Hinduism, Buddha and his contemporaries, Roman religion, Celtic and German religions, Judaism, the Hellenistic period, the Iranian syntheses, and the birth of Christianity—all are encompassed in this volume.
Author : Lewis Ayres
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110608634
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book The Rise of the Early Christian Intellectual written by Lewis Ayres and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of the growth of early Christian intellectual life is of perennial interest to scholars. This volume advances discussion by exploring ways in which Christian writers in the second century did not so much draw on Hellenistic intellectual traditions and models, as they were inevitably embedded in those traditions. The volume contains papers from a seminar in Rome in 2016 that explored the nature and activity of the emergent Christian intellectual between the late first century and the early third century. The papers show that Hellenistic scholarly cultures were the milieu within which Christian modes of thinking developed. At the same time the essays show how Christian thinkers made use of the cultures of which they were part in distinctive ways, adapting existing traditions because of Christian beliefs and needs. The figures studied include Papias from the early part of the second-century, Tatian, Irenaeus, and Clement of Alexandria from the later second century. One paper on Eusebius of Caesarea explores the Christian adaptation of Hellenistic scholarly methods of commentary. Christian figures are studied in the light of debates within Classics and Jewish studies.
Author : Lee Martin McDonald
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0567040968
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (67 download)
Download or read book The Origin of the Bible: A Guide For the Perplexed written by Lee Martin McDonald and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-02-17 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just how did the Jewish and Christian Bibles come together? Why were some ancient texts excluded? Or included and later rejected? What were the criteria? This volume deals with a significant issue in light of the many and significant discoveries of ancient sacred or religious texts that were not included in the Jewish or Christian Bibles. Because of the focus in the news media in recent years on those extra-canonical books that have come to light in the last century - and even more recently, there is need for clarification of the processes involved in the formation of the Jewish and Christian Bibles. Why were some books included and others excluded? Why were some included initially and subsequently rejected? Was there a church cover-up as some in the media have suggested? As a result of all of this and more, considerable attention is now focused on the use and function of the so-called non-canonical religious texts that are not now a part of the Bibles of various religious communities. Why did the Bible come together? What criteria were used in making decisions about inclusion and exclusion? The proposed volume addresses these questions and others that are critical to a careful understanding of the Jewish and Christian Bibles. The methodology employed in the writing of this book is described below. It is important to take this discussion outside of the scholars' guild and into the hands of the laity, especially those educated college graduates and undergraduates whose interest in this subject has grown over the past twenty or more years. Currently there are no useful volumes on this subject that is geared to them. Scholars continue to talk past them and all too often only to each other about these matters. This volume is designed to fill this void and make the topic more clear for those without the technical academic skills to explore these matters in the ancient languages. Continuum's Guides for the Perplexed are clear, concise and accessible introductions to thinkers, writers and subjects that students and readers can find especially challenging - or indeed downright bewildering. Concentrating specifically on what it is that makes the subject difficult to grasp, these books explain and explore key themes and ideas, guiding the reader towards a thorough understanding of demanding material.
Author : Einar Thomassen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110705826
Total Pages : 53 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Coherence of “Gnosticism” written by Einar Thomassen and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Gnosticism” has become a problematic category in the study of early Christianity. It obscures diversity, invites essentialist generalisations, and is a legacy of ancient heresiology. However, simply to conclude with “diversity” is unsatisfying, and new efforts to discern coherence and to synthesise need to be made. The present work seeks to make a fresh start by concentrating on Irenaeus’ report on a specific group called the “Gnostics” and on his claim that Valentinus and his followers were inspired by their ideas. Following this lead, an attempt is made to trace the continuity of ideas from this group to Valentinianism. The study concludes that there is more continuity than has previously been recognised. Irenaeus’ “Gnostics” emerge as the predecessors not only of Valentinianism, but also of Sethianism. They represent an early, philosophically inspired form of Christ religion that arose independently of the New Testament canon. Christology is essential and provides the basis for the myth of Sophia. The book is relevant for all students of Christian origins and the early history of the Church.
Author : Michael Horton
Publisher : Thomas Nelson Inc
ISBN 13 : 141855801X
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (185 download)
Download or read book In the Face of God written by Michael Horton and published by Thomas Nelson Inc. This book was released on 1996-09-23 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have modern believers grown too comfortable with God? In response to the unbiblical, mystical spirituality of our day, Michael Horton calls for a return to the teaching of the Apostle Paul and the early church. The result is a compelling picture of true spiritual intimacy with God.
Author : Craig A. Evans
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567184773
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (671 download)
Download or read book Word and Glory written by Craig A. Evans and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1993-11-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Word and Glory challenges recent claims that Gnosticism, especially as expressed in the Nag Hammadi tractate Trimorphic Protennoia, is the most natural and illuminating background for understanding the Prologue of the Fourth Gospel. Scriptural allusions and interpretive traditions suggest that Jewish wisdom tradition, mediated by the synagogue of the diaspora, lies behind the Prologue and the Fourth Gospel as a whole, not some form of late first-century Gnosticism. Several features of the Fourth Gospel reflect the synagogue and nascent Christianity's struggle to advance and defend its beliefs about Jesus who, as God's son and Agent, was understood as the embodiment of the Divine Word. All of the ingredients that make up Johannine christology derive from dominical tradition, refracted through the lens of Jewish interpretive traditions. There is no compelling evidence that this christology derived from or was influenced by gnostic mythology. Word and Glory also develops and tests criteria for assessing the relative value of post-New Testament sources for the interpretation of New Testament documents.
Author : Hans Jonas
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807058009
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Gnostic Religion written by Hans Jonas and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Message of the Alien God and the Beginnings of Christianity
Author : George W. MacRae SJ
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 172522044X
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)
Download or read book Studies in the New Testament and Gnosticism written by George W. MacRae SJ and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : April D. DeConick
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0567043320
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (67 download)
Download or read book Recovering the Original Gospel of Thomas written by April D. DeConick and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-08-15 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores tough questions that have occupied scholars since the discovery of the Gospel of Thomas in the sands of Nag Hammadi, Egypt, in the 1940's. Where did this gospel come from? When was it written? Who wrote it? Why was it composed? What is its meaning? This book examines these issues.
