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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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