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Providence, Creation, and Gnosticism According to the Gnostics
Journal of Early Christian Studies, 2016So many aspersions have been cast upon the term “Gnosticism” that even studies about “Gnostics” prefer to avoid it. Did the Gnostics then teach no Gnosticism? The extant works (mostly from Nag Hammadi) which seem to resemble their thought prefer the language of myth to the concise, syllogistic formulations that would help modern scholars define ...
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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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Harvard Theological Review, 1964
Shortly before his death Professor Nock asked me to arrange publication of the following lecture on Gnosticism (which had been read at the Harvard Divinity School and elsewhere). Of several unfinished lectures and papers he wished it alone to be printed.
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Shortly before his death Professor Nock asked me to arrange publication of the following lecture on Gnosticism (which had been read at the Harvard Divinity School and elsewhere). Of several unfinished lectures and papers he wished it alone to be printed.
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Gnostically Queer: Gender Trouble in Gnosticism
Biblical Theology Bulletin: Journal of Bible and Culture, 2010This article analyzes the peculiar and challenging “queer” views on gender and sexuality evinced in ancient Christian Gnosticism. It proceeds with a close and careful reading of the texts while employing modern queer theory for their elucidation, notably Judith Butler’s performative understanding of gender.
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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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From Gnostic Research to Gnostic Knowledge
2013Even though the research for the knowledge-base of genuinely scientific medicine (Sect. 4.1) remains essentially non-existent, medicine should already be quasi-scientific – rational in its theoretical framework and driven by gnostic probability functions in expert systems, with those GPFs based on non-scientific expertise.
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Gnostic Libertinism? Gnostic Views on Ethics
2016Church heresiologists and many modern scholars believe that the members of the Gnostic movements do not give any importance to ethics in their systems. For them, Gnostics are either ascetic, or libertine. These statements are largely based on the heresiological works and they seem to ignore the Gnostic primary sources. The Coptic Gnostic texts from Nag
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