In this compelling and richly detailed study, Patrick Whitworth brings to life one of the most influential figures of the early Church: Irenaeus of Lyon. Born in Smyrna and shaped by the teachings of Polycarp and the Apostle John, Irenaeus stood at t...Loe edasi...
Ascetic Passions: Emotions in Early Christian Egypt reveals the role of emotions in shaping early Christian theology, community, and monastic practices in Egypt. Drawing from biblical interpretation, theological treatises, and Coptic monastic and apo...Loe edasi...
Antonio Piñero realiza un recorrido integral por un sistema de conocimiento profundo y enigm�tico del cristianismo heterodoxo de los siglos II al IV.La gnosis, conocimiento de lo oculto que atañe a la salvación del ser humano, nace embrionariamen...Loe edasi...
Examines in depth Enochs full story of the Watchers, the fallen angels who came to Earth and shared corrupting forbidden knowledge Explores how Enoch was a vital component of Second Temple messianic Judaism, speculative Jewish mysticism, the Kabbala...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Dec-2024, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040237700)
It is a curious fact that many of the sources for the Presocratic and Stoic philosophers are early Christian authors; similarly, one can even find an echo of Parmenides in a Gnostic treatise from Nag Hammadi. Such writers were often dependent for the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Nov-2024, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040194447)
Originally published in 1932, this book is based on a series of lectures delivered in Cambridge in 1931. The views of the universe as held by the great teachers of Ancient Alexandria are discussed: Philo, Clement, Origen, Plotinus and the Gnostics ar...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Nov-2024, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040194348)
Originally published in 1932, this book is based on a series of lectures delivered in Cambridge in 1931. The views of the universe as held by the great teachers of Ancient Alexandria are discussed: Philo, Clement, Origen, Plotinus and the Gnostics ar...Loe edasi...
Analyzes the syncretic magical system of Voudon Gnosticism and the traditions from which it is sourced Explains the practices of Voudon Gnosticism in detail, including how to speak with the Lwas (spirits) and establish relationships with them Explor...Loe edasi...
The concept of deviance has been central to the academic study of (Western) esotericism since its inception. This book, being the proceedings of the 6th Biennial Conference of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE), explore...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jan-2024, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197679067)
In The Uses of Idolatry, William T. Cavanaugh offers a sustained and interdisciplinary argument that worship has not waned in our supposedly "e;secular"e; world. Rather, the target of worship has changed, migrating from the explicit worship o...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jan-2024, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197679074)
In The Uses of Idolatry, William T. Cavanaugh offers a sustained and interdisciplinary argument that worship has not waned in our supposedly "e;secular"e; world. Rather, the target of worship has changed, migrating from the explicit worship o...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Oct-2023, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781000989946)
This volume offers an accessible investigation of the Naassene discourse embedded in the anonymous Refutation of All Heresies (completed about 222 CE), in order to understand the theology and ritual life of the Naassene Christian movement in the late...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Oct-2023, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781000989922)
This volume offers an accessible investigation of the Naassene discourse embedded in the anonymous Refutation of All Heresies (completed about 222 CE), in order to understand the theology and ritual life of the Naassene Christian movement in the late...Loe edasi...
The Gnostic Imagination is the first comprehensive study of the relationship between Gnosticism and Merkabah mysticism. It includes an exhaustive analysis of Gershom Scholems views on the subject, an analytical survey of other secondary literature,...Loe edasi...
Desde los inicios del cristianismo se sucedieron numerosos debates doctrinales respecto a temas como el nacimiento virginal de Jesús, su naturaleza divina y humana, sobre la Trinidad o sobre su resurrección. Finalmente, unas doctrinas resultaron tr...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Sep-2022, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781000217506)
This book features detailed analysis of an ancient secret scroll from the Middle East known as the Rivers Scroll or Diwan Nahrawatha, providing valuable insight into the Gnostic Mandaean religion. This important scroll offers a window of understandin...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Sep-2022, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781000217568)
This book features detailed analysis of an ancient secret scroll from the Middle East known as the Rivers Scroll or Diwan Nahrawatha, providing valuable insight into the Gnostic Mandaean religion. This important scroll offers a window of understandin...Loe edasi...
Sari: Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-Mar-2022, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN-13: 9780812298482)
In the Gospel of Truth, a second-century text associated with the Christian Platonist Valentinus, a crucified Jesus is depicted as wrapped in a scroll and reading aloud the contents of his heart as he dies. This is just one of many strange appearance...Loe edasi...
Sari: Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-Mar-2022, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN-13: 9780812298482)
In the Gospel of Truth, a second-century text associated with the Christian Platonist Valentinus, a crucified Jesus is depicted as wrapped in a scroll and reading aloud the contents of his heart as he dies. This is just one of many strange appearance...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Feb-2022, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300264876)
A new translation and commentary on the extracanonical Coptic text that describes Judas special status among Jesus disciples Since its publication in 2006, The Gospel of Judas has generated remarkable interest and debate among scholars and general...Loe edasi...
The volume discusses the post-New Testament Simon Magus from the era of the Church Fathers beginning with Justin Martyr to the early modern era represented in a seventeenth century Baroque relief in the Cathedral of Oviedo, Spain. Sources consulted a...Loe edasi...
Manichaeism, once a gnostic world religion, soon spread to the Roman West. Here, the life and the work of the future (and, without doubt, most influential) Church Father Augustine (354-430) became inextricably connected with Manichaean teachings and...Loe edasi...
In this study of the rabbinic heretics who believed in Two Powers in Heaven, Alan Segal explores some relationships between rabbinic Judaism, Merkabah mysticism, and early Christianity. Two Powers in Heaven was a very early category of heresy. It was...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-Aug-2021, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: DANCE ALL DAY Musicvertriebs GmbH (Verlagsaccount), ISBN-13: 9783985940530)
As the Book of Enoch is, in some respects, the most notable extant apocalyptic work outside the canonical Scriptures, it will not be inappropriate to offer a few remarks here on the Apocalyptic Literature generally. In writing about the books which b...Loe edasi...
Building on critical work in biblical studies, which shows how a historically-bounded heretical tradition called Gnosticism was invented, this work focuses on the following stage in which it was essentialised into a sui generis, universal categor...Loe edasi...
Building on critical work in biblical studies, which shows how a historically-bounded heretical tradition called Gnosticism was invented, this work focuses on the following stage in which it was essentialised into a sui generis, universal categor...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Jul-2021, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300255577)
A collection of extra-biblical scriptures written by the gnostics, updated with three ancient texts including the recently discovered Gospel of Judas "e;The one indispensable book for the understanding of Gnosis and Gnosticism."e;-Harold Bloo...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jul-2021, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781000377620)
This book offers a detailed analysis of the Gospel of Thomas in its historic and literary context, providing a new understanding of the genesis of the Jesus tradition. Discovered in the twentieth century, the non-canonical Gospel of Thomas is an impo...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jul-2021, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781000377651)
This book offers a detailed analysis of the Gospel of Thomas in its historic and literary context, providing a new understanding of the genesis of the Jesus tradition. Discovered in the twentieth century, the non-canonical Gospel of Thomas is an impo...Loe edasi...
El Libro de Enoc es uno de los apócrifos m�s apasionantes que nos ha legado la antigüedad. Su contenido es principalmente simbólico, insinuando misterios cósmicos referentes a la historia de la especie humana. Menciona con insistencia a ciertos...Loe edasi...
The discovery of the Nag Hammadi Library (1945) has given an enormous impetus not only to the study of ancient Gnosticism but also to that of early Christianity in general. Most of the studies contained in this volume deal with mythological conceptio...Loe edasi...
Modern interpretation of the Manichaean religious tradition requires a firm foundation in the sober and meticulous reconstruction of highly fragmentary sources. The studies collected in this volume contribute to such a foundation by bringing new prim...Loe edasi...
This book is a new edition and translation of the Nag Hammadi tractate, The Concept of Our Great Power, with introduction and commentary.It suggests that the tractate is composite, and that its basis was a non-Christian Gnostic apocalyptic work whose...Loe edasi...
This volume is a selection of papers presented to the Society of Biblical Literature Thomasine Traditions Group from 1996 to 2001. The papers focus on the early Christian writings attributed to the apostle Thomas with particular emphasis on the Gospe...Loe edasi...
This synopsis of the Apocryphon of John presents the four Coptic text (NHC II,1; III,1 and IV,1; with BG 8502) in parallel columns with English translations in similar arrangement beneath the Coptic text. Important parallel texts are included in an a...Loe edasi...
Codex VIII from Nag Hammadi contains two tractates, Zostrianos and The Letter of Peter to Philip. This volume presents a critical edition of those texts, and includes regarding each separate text a transcription with notes, an introduction, and a tra...Loe edasi...
A collection of 40 or so of the authors essays and contributions to the study of Gnosis, the Mandaeans and Manichaeism, published in the course of the past 40 years. Most have been revised for this new edition. Subjects treated include on the one ha...Loe edasi...
Prof. Dr. Hans-Martin Schenke, internationally renowned New Testament scholar and pioneer researcher in Gnosticism as it became brilliantly illuminated by the publication of the Nag Hammadi Codices, organized a small group of students and colleagues...Loe edasi...
This volume contains 22 papers originally delivered at the Society of Biblical Literatures 1995 commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the Nag Hammadi Library. Of these papers, five focus on the theme "e;Past, Present, and Fut...Loe edasi...
The Kephalaia of the Teacher is the most detailed account available to modern scholarship of the teachings of Mani, and of the universal religion that he founded as the final successor to Buddha, Zarathushtra and Jesus. This volume provides the first...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-Oct-2020, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781000163223)
Comparing and evaluating modern theories of myth, this book offers an overview of explanations of myth from the social sciences and the humanities.This ambitious collection of essays uses the viewpoints of a variety of disciplines - psychology, anthr...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-Oct-2020, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781000163261)
Comparing and evaluating modern theories of myth, this book offers an overview of explanations of myth from the social sciences and the humanities.This ambitious collection of essays uses the viewpoints of a variety of disciplines - psychology, anthr...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Jul-2020, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520969803)
Valentinus, an Egyptian Christian who traveled to Rome to teach his unique brand of theology, and his followers, the Valentinians, formed one of the largest and most influential sects of Christianity in the second and third centuries. But by the four...Loe edasi...
