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Cosmology and Fate in Gnosticism and Graeco-Roman Antiquity : Under Pitiless Skies.
In Cosmology and Fate in Gnosticism and Graeco-Roman Antiquity, Denzey Lewis explores the rhetoric of ""enslavement to fate"" in the intellectual history of the 2nd century C.E., which she argues is differently articulated by ancient authors but to similar rhetorical ends.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden :
BRILL,
2013.
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| Colección: | Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Were the Gnostics Cosmic Pessimists?; 2. Nag Hammadi and the Providential Cosmos; 3. 'This Body of Death': Cosmic Malevolence and Enslavement to Sin in Pauline Exegesis; 4. Heimarmene at Nag Hammadi: The Apocryphon of John and on the Origin of the World; 5. Middle Platonism, Heimarmene, and the Corpus Hermeticum; 6. Ways Out I: Interventions of the Savior God; 7. Ways Out II: Baptism and Cosmic Freedom: A New Genesis; 8. Astral 'Determinism' in the Gospel of Judas; 9. Conclusions, and a New Way Forward; Selected Bibliography