Hidden Wisdom, Esoteric Traditions and the Roots of Christian Mysticism. Second, Revised and Enlarged paperback edition.

Hidden Wisdom, Esoteric Traditions and the Roots of Christian Mysticism. Second, Revised and Enlarged paperback edition.

This book investigates the problem of esoteric traditions in early Christianity, their origin and their transformation in Patristic hermeneutics, in the West as well as in the East. It argues that these traditions eventually formed the basis of nascent Christian mysticism in Late Antiquity. These es...

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Main Author: Guy Stroumsa

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2005.

Series: Numen Book Series 70.
Numen Book Series Online, ISBN: 9789004380837.

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Discipline of the secret.
Mysticism.

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Call Number: BR195.O33

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
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  • Introduction /
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  • Myth as Enigma: Cultural Hermeneutics in Late Antiquity /
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  • Paradosis: Esoteric Traditions in Early Christianity /
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  • Gnostic Secret Myths /
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  • Esotericism in Mani's Thought and Background /
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  • The Body of Truth and its Measures: New Testament Canonization in Context /
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  • Moses' Riddles: Esoteric Trends in Patristic Hermeneutics /
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  • Clement, Origen, and Jewish Esoteric Traditions /
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  • Milk and Meat: Augustine and the End of Ancient Esotericism /
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  • From Esotericism to Mysticism in Early Christianity /
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  • Mystical Descents /
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  • A Nameless God: Judaeo-Christian and Gnostic 'Theologies of the Name' /
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  • Sources /
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  • Indices /
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