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The article analyzes the original concept of the development of ancient religions and the emergence of Christianity set out in the six-volume work of F.F. Zelinski History of Ancient Religions.
Igor I. Evlampiev
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Gnostyk heterodoksyjny i prawdziwy gnostyk w Chrystusie według nauczania Ireneusza z Lyonu
The fight against gnostics allowed the holy bishop to develop the Christian doctrine with a perfect way. At first, he showed that the knowledge that heretics sought in vain in mythical narratives was not real. The only real gnosis was love and grace for
Eirini Artemi
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This article addresses how Hans Jonas’s reconstruction of gnosticism as a historical movement in late antiquity gave rise to two parallel contemporary interpretations: Gershom Scholem’s “metaphysical antisemitism” and Susan and Jacob Taubes’s attempt at ...
Jonathan Cahana-Blum
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P(論文)Gnosticism is a general term of various denominations which appeared in Palestine and Syria, namely the East of the Mediterranean Sea in the half of the first century.
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Impact of Scholarship on Contemporary “Gnosticism(s)” [PDF]
This article examines the impact of academic discourses on Neo ...
M. Dillon
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The Gnostic Politics of World Loss
One of the harder lessons offered by history is that only the first half of the revolution seems worth carrying out. This study examines how, contra Christianity, which spells out the fate of revolution in its entirety, Gnosticism stands as a symbol for ...
Yi Wu
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The Vicissitudes of the Nafs: Madness, Paralysis, and the Work of Transgression in Sufi Ethics
ABSTRACT How should we theorize Sufi ethics when the practice of zikr (remembrance) that leads to spiritual enlightenment (tazkiyya) might also bring one to the brink of majzubiyat (madness)? What forms of regulation or restraint are imagined or enacted by practitioners to prevent spiritual boundlessness from perverting into its underside of paralysis (
Muhammad Osama Imran
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Gnosticism and modernity: an archaeology of the influence of Valentinian Gnosticism on modern systems of thought through the theological theme of Sophiology [PDF]
This thesis investigates the influence of second century Gnosticism (Valentinian Gnosticism) on modern systems of thought. It contends that such an influence does exists and that Gnosticism, although often neglected, is one significant hermeneutical ...
May, R.
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The Nature of Christian Doctrine: A Conversation with My Critics
Abstract This article opens with a brief account of the six main themes of The Nature of Christian Doctrine, noting in particular the role of the early church as an ‘epistemic community’ of knowledge production, and the significant and helpful parallels between the modern scientific tool of ‘inference to the best explanation’ and early Christian ...
Alister E. McGrath
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A number of American films released in the mid/late 1990s drew on, or have been discussed in the context of, gnosticism—a loose, imprecise umbrella term usually applied to a number of heterodox early Christian literary traditions.
Kaler, Michael
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