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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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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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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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The Gnostics: the Undominated Race
Novum Testamentum, 1979Le motif de "sans-roi", abasileutos, chez les Gnostiques. Examen de ce concept dans le monde hellenique et greco-romain, de Xenophon a Josephe: d'un sens proprement politique (sans roi), le mot prend un sens metaphorique (non domine). Examen du motif "la race non-dominee" dans les textes gnostiques: Apocalypse d'Adam, Lettre d'Eugnostos, Sophia de ...
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2005
Esposizione complessiva sulle origini, sviluppo e forme storiche dello gnosticismo antico; fonti e bibliografia.
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Esposizione complessiva sulle origini, sviluppo e forme storiche dello gnosticismo antico; fonti e bibliografia.
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Neoplatonizing Gnosticism and Gnosticizing Neoplatonism in the “American Baroque”
2013The author traces the roots and anticipations of contemporary discussions, in the Neoplatonic, late Transcendentalist journal, The Platonist , and other North American sources. With such "over the top" syncretism and the increasing confusion of an incipient late nineteenth-century "spiritual crisis", perhaps the "American Baroque" is a suitable name ...
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