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2013
The term “Gnosticism” can be utilized broadly, to characterize any religious movement based on an internal, individualized recognition (“Gnosis”) of one’s divine inner “spark” that links an individual with a higher divine force. In this sense, moments of “Gnosticism” have emerged at various historical periods.
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The term “Gnosticism” can be utilized broadly, to characterize any religious movement based on an internal, individualized recognition (“Gnosis”) of one’s divine inner “spark” that links an individual with a higher divine force. In this sense, moments of “Gnosticism” have emerged at various historical periods.
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Gnosticism, gnostics, and gnosis
2018This chapter discusses the problem and attendant evidence of ancient "Gnosticism" and traces the reception and development of ancient Gnostic traditions in the medieval world as well as the modern emergence of discourse about "Gnosis." Ferdinand Christian Baur used the term Gnosis to describe a transhistorical philosophy of religion, culminating in the
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2019
Abstract The corpus of extant Gnostic literature, preserved almost exclusively in Coptic codices of the ca. fourth–sixth centuries ce, constitutes an invaluable witness for the transmission of Second Temple Jewish traditions in late antiquity. The most famous of these concern the hypostasis Sophia (“Wisdom”) and the dual creation of Adam
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Abstract The corpus of extant Gnostic literature, preserved almost exclusively in Coptic codices of the ca. fourth–sixth centuries ce, constitutes an invaluable witness for the transmission of Second Temple Jewish traditions in late antiquity. The most famous of these concern the hypostasis Sophia (“Wisdom”) and the dual creation of Adam
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What is ‘Gnostic’ within Gnostic Apocalypses?
2021Die gnostischen Apokalysen gehören zum Bereich apokalyptischer Literatur des Judentums und des Christentums. Der genaue Umfang des Korpus gnosticher Apokalypsen ist jedoch umstritten. Um zu dieser Debatte beizutragen, werden im vorliegenden Beitrag Texte von drei Gruppen von Gnostikern in den Blick genommen: den Valentinianern, den Sethianern und den ...
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2009
Abstract The state of research into what is traditionally called ‘Gnosticism’, a religious phenomenon of late antiquity, is opaque at the moment. In a recent collection of essays on the topic, two prominent scholars approach the topic in very different ways.
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Abstract The state of research into what is traditionally called ‘Gnosticism’, a religious phenomenon of late antiquity, is opaque at the moment. In a recent collection of essays on the topic, two prominent scholars approach the topic in very different ways.
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2018
Gnosticism comprises a loosely associated group of teachers, teachings and sects which professed to offer ‘gnosis’, saving knowledge or enlightenment, conveyed in various myths which sought to explain the origin of the world and of the human soul and the destiny of the latter.
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Gnosticism comprises a loosely associated group of teachers, teachings and sects which professed to offer ‘gnosis’, saving knowledge or enlightenment, conveyed in various myths which sought to explain the origin of the world and of the human soul and the destiny of the latter.
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