Apocalypse of the Alien God : Platonism and the Exile of Sethian Gnosticism /
Apocalypse of the Alien God shows that the fundamental break between the Platonic tradition and Judeo-Christianity began when the mystic Plotinus rejected the teachings of the Sethians, an influential group of Gnostics who operated at the intersection of Hellenic, Jewish, and Christian thought.
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
2014.
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Edición: | 1st ed. |
Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. Culture Wars
- 2. Plotinus Against His Gnostic Friends
- 3. Other Ways of Writing
- 4. The Descent
- 5. The Ascent
- 6. The Crown
- 7. Between Judaism, Christianity, and Neoplatonism
- Appendix: Reading Porphyry on the Gnostic Heretics and Their Apocalypses
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments.