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Revival of the Gnostic Heresy

Author : J. Morris
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230616585
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Revival of the Gnostic Heresy written by J. Morris and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-11-24 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this rigorous and provocative study, Joe E. Morrisargues that the basic tenets and practices of Fundamentalism are those of ancient Christian Gnosticism. Drawing on extensive research andcareful analysis, Morris aligns the two religious phenomena, point by point, tenet by tenet.Along the way, he provides insights into the key hermeneutic of Fundamentalism: inerrancy of Scripture, highlighting the multiple problems with the positions of literal and inerrant interpretation, their impracticality and unfeasibility, and their contradiction with their own conservative doctrine - namely, the Incarnation of Jesus Christ. This groundbreaking book dramatically recasts our understanding of the history of Christianity and gives important context to modern-day religious debates.

The Gnostic New Age

Author : April D. DeConick
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231542046
Total Pages : 515 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The Gnostic New Age written by April D. DeConick and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Modern Revival of Gnosticism and Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus

Author : Kirsten J. Grimstad
Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 9781571131935
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book The Modern Revival of Gnosticism and Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus written by Kirsten J. Grimstad and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2002 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores the reappearance of Gnostic themes across the landscape of European literature and thought and in major works by Thomas Mann

Gnosticism

Author : Stephan A Hoeller
Publisher : Quest Books
ISBN 13 : 0835630137
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Gnosticism written by Stephan A Hoeller and published by Quest Books. This book was released on 2012-12-13 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gnosticism developed alongside Judeo-Christianity over two thousand years ago, but with an important difference: It emphasizes, not faith, but direct perception of God--Gnosticism being derived from the Greek word gnosis, meaning "knowledge." Given the controversial premise that one can know God directly, the history of Gnosticism is an unfolding drama of passion, political intrigue, martyrdom, and mystery. Dr. Hoeller traces this fascinating story throughout time and shows how Gnosticism has inspired such great thinkers as Voltaire, Blake, Yeats, Hesse, Melville, and Jung.

The Fundamentals of a Recovering Fundamentalist

Author : Gabriel Gordon
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666785687
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)

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Download or read book The Fundamentals of a Recovering Fundamentalist written by Gabriel Gordon and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2024-06-27 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As recovering Fundamentalists we often find ourselves unknowingly remaining within the Fundamentalist worldview. We think that if we enter into Progressive Christianity we’re leaving behind the irrational, hurtful, racist, and untrue theological worldview we were brought up in. But what if Fundamentalism is really a kind of Progressive Christianity? And both of these twin children of modernity are inherently racist, anti-Jewish, and colonial, and therefore antithetical to the brown Jewish Incarnation of the God of Israel? What if instead of leaving Fundamentalism we’ve really just changed the garbs of the Northern European Enlightenment rather than truly reorientating our whole lives towards the True, Good, and Beautiful? In this book we will examine a need for former Fundamentalists to be reintroduced to the Christian faith. One that looks backwards towards Christianity as it existed before the Enlightenment and even the Reformation. One that de-centers Christian traditions which originated out of Northern Europe by centering Christian traditions rooted in such places as Southwest Asia and North and East Africa. By criticizing modernist white Christianity the reader is guided into a Christianity that isn’t merely the other side of the same coin but looks radically different.

The Gnostic World

Author : Garry W. Trompf
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317201841
Total Pages : 833 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book The Gnostic World written by Garry W. Trompf and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-03 with total page 833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gnostic World is an outstanding guide to Gnosticism, written by a distinguished international team of experts to explore Gnostic movements from the distant past until today. These themes are examined across sixty-seven chapters in a variety of contexts, from the ancient pre-Christian to the contemporary. The volume considers the intersection of Gnosticism with Jewish, Christian, Islamic and Indic practices and beliefs, and also with new religious movements, such as Theosophy, Scientology, Western Sufism, and the Nation of Islam. This comprehensive handbook will be an invaluable resource for religious studies students, scholars, and researchers of Gnostic doctrine and history.

The Catholic Thing

Author : Robert Royal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781587311055
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Catholic Thing written by Robert Royal and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Catholic "thing" - the concrete historical reality of Catholicism as a presence in human history - is the richest cultural tradition in the world. It values both faith and reason, and therefore has a great deal to say about politics and economics, war and peace, manners and morals, children and families, careers and vocations, and many other perennial and contemporary questions. In addition, it has inspired some of the greatest art, music, and architecture, while offering unparalleled human solidarity to tens of millions through hospitals, soup kitchens, schools, universities, and relief services. This volume brings together some of the very best commentary on a wide range of recent events and controversies by some of the very best Catholic writers in the English language: Ralph McInerny, Michael Novak, Fr. James V. Schall, Hadley Arkes, Robert Royal, Anthony Esolen, Brad Miner, George Marlin, David Warren, Austin Ruse, Francis Beckwith, and many others. Their contributions cover large Catholic subjects such as philosophy and theology, liturgy and Church dogma, postmodern culture, the Church and modern politics, literature, and music. But they also look into specific contemporary problems such as religious liberty, the role of Catholic officials in public life, growing moral hazards in bio-medical advances, and such like. The Catholic Thing is a virtual encyclopedia of Catholic thought about modern life.

Against the Modern World

Author : Mark J. Sedgwick
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195396014
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Against the Modern World written by Mark J. Sedgwick and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the Modern World is the first history of Traditionalism, an important yet surprisingly little-known twentieth-century anti-modern movement. Comprising a number of often secret but sometimes very influential religious groups in the West and in the Islamic world, it affected mainstream and radical politics in Europe and the development of the field of religious studies in the United States, touching the lives of many individuals. French writer Rene Guenon rejected modernity as a dark age and sought to reconstruct the Perennial Philosophy - the central truths behind all the major world religions. Guenon stressed the urgent need for the West's remaining spiritual and intellectual elite to find personal and collective salvation in the surviving vestiges of ancient religious traditions. A number of disenchanted intellectuals responded to his call. In Europe, America, and the Islamic world, Traditionalists founded institutes, Sufi brotherhoods, Masonic lodges, and secret societies. Some attempted unsuccessfully to guide Fascism and Nazism along Traditionalist lines; others later participated in political terror in Italy. Traditionalist ideas were the ideological cement for the alliance of anti-democratic forces in post-Soviet Russia, and in the Islamic world entered the debate about the relationship between Islam and modernity. Although its appeal in the West was ultimately limited, Traditionalism has wielded enormous influence in religious studies, through the work of such Traditionalists as Ananda Coomaraswamy, Huston Smith, Mircea Eliade, and Seyyed Hossein Nasr.

The Nag Hammadi Library in English

Author : James McConkey Robinson
Publisher : Brill Archive
ISBN 13 : 9789004071858
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (718 download)

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Download or read book The Nag Hammadi Library in English written by James McConkey Robinson and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1984 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Gnostics

Author : Jacques Lacarriere
Publisher : Peter Owen Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0720618029
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book The Gnostics written by Jacques Lacarriere and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gnostics have always sought to “know” rather than to accept dogma and doctrine, often to their peril. 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.Lawrence Durrell writes, “This is a strange and original essay, more a work of literature than of scholarship, though its documentation is impeccable. It is as convincing a reconstruction of the way the Gnostics lived and thought as D.H. Lawrence’s intuitive recreation of the vanished Etruscans.”

The Gnostic Paradigm

Author : N. Elias
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137465387
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book The Gnostic Paradigm written by N. Elias and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-04-09 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No study has been carried out examining the gnostic undercurrents in medieval England. For the first time, Natanela Elias investigates the existence of these gnostic traces, using prominent late medieval English literary works such as Piers Plowman and Confessio Amantis and ultimately shedding light on a previously overlooked religious dimension.

The Other God

Author : Yuri Stoyanov
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030019014X
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Other God written by Yuri Stoyanov and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2000-08-11 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVDIVThis fascinating book explores the evolution of religious dualism, the doctrine that man and cosmos are constant battlegrounds between forces of good and evil. It traces this evolution from late Egyptian religion and the revelations of Zoroaster and the Orphics in antiquity through the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Mithraic Mysteries, and the great Gnostic teachers to its revival in medieval Europe with the suppression of the Bogomils and the Cathars, heirs to the age-long teachings of dualism. Integrating political, cultural, and religious history, Yuri Stoyanov illuminates the dualist religious systems, recreating in vivid detail the diverse worlds of their striking ideas and beliefs, their convoluted mythologies and symbolism. Reviews of an earlier edition: “A book of prime importance for anyone interested in the history of religious dualism. The author’s knowledge of relevant original sources is remarkable; and he has distilled them into a convincing and very readable whole.”—Sir Steven Runciman “The most fascinating historical detective story since Steven Runciman’s Sicilian Vespers.”—Colin Wilson “A splendid account of the decline of the dualist tradition in the East . . . both strong and accessible. . . . The most readable account of Balkan heresy ever.”—Jeffrey B. Russell, Journal of Religion “Well-written, fact-filled, and fascinating . . . has in it the making of a classic.” —Harry T. Norris, Bulletin of SOAS/div/div

The American Religion

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Chu Hartley Publishers LLC
ISBN 13 : 9780978721008
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The American Religion written by Harold Bloom and published by Chu Hartley Publishers LLC. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La 4ème de couv. indique : "In this fascinating work of religious criticism, Harold Bloom examines a number of American-born faiths: Pentecostalism, Mormonism, Seventh-day Adventism, Christian Science, Jehovah's Witnesses, Southern Baptism and Fundamentalism, and African American spirituality. He traces the distinctive features of American religion while asking provocative questions about the role religion plays in American culture and in each American's concept of his or her relationship to God. Bloom finds that our spiritual beliefs provide an exact portrait of our national character."

A Layman's Look at Cults And The Occult

Author : Alton Crapps
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 147713817X
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (771 download)

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Download or read book A Layman's Look at Cults And The Occult written by Alton Crapps and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-07-18 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alton Crapps lives in Leesville, S.C. and is an elder of his Baptist Church. He has been doing short term missions for some 12 years in India, as well as other parts of the world. It was in India that he was asked to teach on cults. This is where the work ‘A Layman’s Look At Cults And The Occult’ first became an idea. The indigenous pastors there asked for the study-guide. Over the years we were given numerous request for the study-guide to be published. May God bless this work to His glory and to defeat Satan as well.

Rudolf Steiner

Author : A. P. Shepherd
Publisher : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
ISBN 13 : 9780892811748
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book Rudolf Steiner written by A. P. Shepherd and published by Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. This book was released on 1987 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This definitive biography of the founder of Anthroposophy provides insight into his life and work with new forms of medicine, agriculture, architecture, and the Waldorf education system. Steiner's Spiritual Science offers a powerful tool for self-realization and a practical system for improving and mastering daily life.

The Gnostic Empire Strikes Back

Author : Peter Jones
Publisher : Presbyterian & Reformed Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780875522852
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (228 download)

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Download or read book The Gnostic Empire Strikes Back written by Peter Jones and published by Presbyterian & Reformed Publishing Company. This book was released on 1992 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gnosis

Author : Kurt Rudolph
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780567086402
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Gnosis written by Kurt Rudolph and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2001-06-20 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated by R. McL. WilsonA full-scale study based on the documents of the Coptic Gnostic library found at Nag Hammadi providing a comprehensive survey of the nature, the teachings, the history and the influence of this religion.