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Gnostic Religion in Antiquity.
An examination of Gnostic religion in Late Antiquity within its historical and religious context, using Greek, Latin and Coptic sources.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Gnostic Religion in Antiquity; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Chapter1 Gnosis and gnostic religion; Chapter2 Gnostic literature I: tradition; The Greek tradition; The Coptic tradition; The Codex Askewianus in London; The Codex Brucianus in Oxford; Papyrus Codex 8502 in Berlin; The Nag Hammadi manuscripts in Cairo; Codex Tchacos in Basle/Cairo; Chapter3 Gnostic literature II: texts; Classification; Non-gnostic or hardly gnostic writings in gnostic collections; The Gospel of Thomas and related texts; The Barbelo myth and the gnostic exegesis of Genesis.
- The Barbelo myth and heavenly journeysValentinian texts; Polemical texts; Other mythological traditions; Chapter4 Anti-gnostic literature; Irenaeus; Hippolytus; Epiphanius; Plotinus and his pupils; Chapter5 Gnosis: essence and expressions; The gnostic experience; God and his world; The Unknown God; Dualism; Man and Son of Man; Three principles; The doctrine of God in the Barbelo myth: the Secret Book of John; Valentinus and the Valentinians; The Valentinian Pleroma; Mankind and its world; Dualistic systems; Some monistic systems; Saturnilus; The Secret Book of John and related texts.
- ValentiniansSalvation; Salvation without Christ; Christ as the last Saviour; Christ as the only Saviour; Gnostic and non-gnostic Christology; The resurrection of Jesus and of Christians; Chapter6 Backgrounds; The quest for the source; Greek philosophy (Platonism); Judaism; Christianity; The Spiritof the age; Bibliography; Index of ancient sources; Index of names and subjects.