Cosmology and fate in Gnosticism and Graeco-Roman antiquity : under pitiless skies /

Cosmology and fate in Gnosticism and Graeco-Roman antiquity : under pitiless skies /

In Cosmology and Fate in Gnosticism and Graeco-Roman Antiquity , Nicola Denzey Lewis dismisses Hans Jonas' mischaracterization of second-century Gnosticism as a philosophically-oriented religious movement built on the perception of the cosmos as negative or enslaving. A focused study on the con...

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Main Author: Lewis, Nicola Denzey, 1966-

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.

Series: Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies 81.
Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2013, ISBN: 9789004248649.

Subjects:

Gnosticism.
Cosmology.
Fate and fatalism.
RELIGION / Gnosticism

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Call Number: BT1390 .L49 2013

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter /
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  • Introduction /
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  • Were the Gnostics Cosmic Pessimists? /
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  • Nag Hammadi and the Providential Cosmos /
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  • 'This Body of Death': Cosmic Malevolence and Enslavement to Sin in Pauline Exegesis /
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  • Heimarmene at Nag Hammadi: The Apocryphon of John and On the Origin of the World /
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  • Middle Platonism, Heimarmene, and the Corpus Hermeticum /
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  • Ways Out I: Interventions of the Savior God /
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  • Ways Out II: Baptism and Cosmic Freedom: A New Genesis /
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  • Astral 'Determinism' in the Gospel of Judas /
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  • Conclusions, and a New Way Forward /
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  • Selected Bibliography /
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  • Subject Index /
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