Author: Bentley LaytonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gnosticism
Languages : de
Pages : 456
Book Description
The Rediscovery of Gnosticism: Sethian gnosticism
Author: Bentley LaytonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gnosticism
Languages : de
Pages : 456
Book Description
The Rediscovery of Gnosticism (2 vols.)
Author: Bentley LaytonPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004378596
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 926
Book Description
Preliminary Material /Bentley Layton -- The Domestication of Gnosis /Henry Chadwick -- Gnosis and Psychology /Gilles Quispel -- The Challenge of Gnostic Thought for Philosophy, Alchemy, and Literature /Carsten Colpe -- Lying Against Time: Gnosis, Poetry, Criticism /Harold Bloom -- In Search of Valentinus /G. C. Stead -- Religio-Historical Observations on Valentinianism /Ugo Bianchi -- Valentinian Gnosis and the Apocryphon of John /Gilles Quispel -- Valentinianism and the Gospel of Truth /R. McL. Wilson -- The Dog and the Mushrooms /Rowan A. Greer -- Self-Generating Principles in Second-Century Gnostic Systems /John Whittaker -- La Gnose Valentinienne et les Oracles Chaldaïques /Michel Tardieu -- Gnostic Writings as Witnesses for the Development of the Sayings Tradition /Helmut Koester -- Gnostic and Orthodox views of Christ's Passion: Paradigms for the Christian's Response to Persecution? /Elaine H. Pagels -- Gnosis and the Piety of Metaphor: The Gospel of Truth /Joel Fineman -- Gnosis und Christentum /Barbara Aland -- Concluding Discussion -- The Descent of the Soul in Middle Platonic and Gnostic Theory /John Dillon -- Gnosticism and the Making of the World in Plotinus /Dominic J. O'meara -- Gnostic Monism and the Gospel of Truth /William R. Schoedel -- Valentinisme italien et valentinisme oriental: leurs divergences à propos de la nature du corps de Jésus /Jean-Daniel Kaestli -- Conflicting Versions of Valentinianism? Irenaeus and the Excerpta ex Theodoto /James F. Mccue -- Les «Mythes» Valentiniens de la création et de l'eschatologie dans le langage d'Origène: le mot hypothesis /Marguerite Harl -- «Vraie» et «fausse» gnose d'après Clément d'Alexandrie /Andre Mehat -- Did Gnostics Make Pictures? /Paul Corby Finney -- Preliminary Material /Bentley Layton -- Philo on Seth /Robert Kraft -- Report on Seth Traditions in the Armenian Adam Books /Michael E. Stone -- The Figure of Seth in Gnostic Literature /Birger A. Pearson -- Discussion /Bentley Layton -- Some Related Traditions in the Apocalypse of Adam, the Books of Adam and eve, and 1 Enoch /George W. E. Nickelsburg -- Sethian and Zoroastrian Ages of the World /Carsten Colpe -- Discussion /Bentley Layton -- Stalking Those Elusive Sethians /Frederik Wisse -- Die “Sethianische” Gnosis--Eine häresiologische Fiktion? /Kurt Rudolph -- Discussion /Bentley Layton -- The Phenomenon and Significance of Gnostic Sethianism /Hans-Martin Schenke -- Triade uno Trinität in den Schriften von Nag Hammadi /Alexander Böhlig -- Discussion /Bentley Layton -- Sethians and Johannine Thought /James M. Robinson -- Discussion /Bentley Layton -- Concluding Discussion /Bentley Layton -- The Arrogant Archon and the Lewd Sophia /Nils A. Dahl -- Aspects of the Jewish-Gnostic Controversy /Ithamar Gruenwald -- Literary Criticism of the Cologne Mani Codex /Albert Henrichs -- From Baptism to the Gnosis of Manichaeism /Ludwig Koenen -- Gnostic Instructions on the Organization of the Congregation /Klaus Koschorke -- The Naassene Psalm in Hippolytus (Haer. 5. 10.2) /M. Marcovich -- Le cadre scolaire des traités de l'Ame et le Deuxième Traité du Grand Seth (CG VII, 2) /Louis Painchaud.
The Rediscovery of Gnosticism
Author: Bentley LaytonPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004061767
Category : Gnosticism
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
The Rediscovery of Gnosticism
Author: Bentley LaytonThe Rediscovery of Gnosticism. Volume 2: Sethian Gnosticism
Author: The Rediscovery of Gnosticism: The school of Valentinus
Author: Bentley LaytonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gnosticism
Languages : de
Pages : 488
Book Description
Sethian Gnosticism and the Platonic Tradition
Author: John Douglas TurnerPublisher: Presses Université Laval
ISBN: 9782763778341
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
The Rediscovery of Gnosticism: Sethian gnosticism
Author: Bentley LaytonPublisher: Brill Academic Publishers
ISBN: 9789004061781
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
Apocalypse of the Alien God
Author: Dylan M. BurnsPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812245792
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
In the second century, Platonist and Judeo-Christian thought were sufficiently friendly that a Greek philosopher could declare, "What is Plato but Moses speaking Greek?" Four hundred years later, a Christian emperor had ended the public teaching of subversive Platonic thought. When and how did this philosophical rupture occur? Dylan M. Burns argues that the fundamental break occurred in Rome, ca. 263, in the circle of the great mystic Plotinus, author of the Enneads. Groups of controversial Christian metaphysicians called Gnostics ("knowers") frequented his seminars, disputed his views, and then disappeared from the history of philosophy—until the 1945 discovery, at Nag Hammadi, Egypt, of codices containing Gnostic literature, including versions of the books circulated by Plotinus's Christian opponents. Blending state-of-the-art Greek metaphysics and ecstatic Jewish mysticism, these texts describe techniques for entering celestial realms, participating in the angelic liturgy, confronting the transcendent God, and even becoming a divine being oneself. They also describe the revelation of an alien God to his elect, a race of "foreigners" under the protection of the patriarch Seth, whose interventions will ultimately culminate in the end of the world. Apocalypse of the Alien God proposes a radical interpretation of these long-lost apocalypses, placing them firmly in the context of Judeo-Christian authorship rather than ascribing them to a pagan offshoot of Gnosticism. According to Burns, this Sethian literature emerged along the fault lines between Judaism and Christianity, drew on traditions known to scholars from the Dead Sea Scrolls and Enochic texts, and ultimately catalyzed the rivalry of Platonism with Christianity. Plunging the reader into the culture wars and classrooms of the high Empire, Apocalypse of the Alien God offers the most concrete social and historical description available of any group of Gnostic Christians as it explores the intersections of ancient Judaism, Christianity, Hellenism, myth, and philosophy.
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