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What is ‘Gnostic’ within Gnostic Apocalypses?

2021
Die 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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Gnosticism

Abstract It no longer makes sense to call Philo a “Gnostic” or “pre-Gnostic,” yet we can fruitfully compare Philo’s thought with a movement later called “Gnostic,” namely the Sethians. A certain amount of overlap occurs due to a common Middle Platonic heritage (such as the creation of humanity’s lower soul by intermediate powers), yet ...
Alyssa Spears, Alicia McLean
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Gnosticism, gnostics, and gnosis

2018
This 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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