…y Rudolph Bultmann , argued that the Gospel of John has elements in common with Gnosticism . Some scholars still claim such tendencies in the gospel, but given that the oldest text certainly known to be Gnostic, the Apocrypha of John , is from the mid-second century, such a parad…

…isit the Bookstore for a complete selection of translations and books about the Gnostic Gospels. The Nag Hammadi Library The Second Treatise of the Great Seth Translated by Roger A. Bullard and Joseph A. Gibbons And the perfect Majesty is at rest in the ineffable light, in the tr…

…ol philosophies (Platonism, Aristotelianism, Epicureanism, Cynicism, Stoicism), Gnosticism. History, interrelationships, emerging world view of these movements. Course details Credit Hours: Max credits per semester: Max credits per degree: Grading Option: Graded with Option Credi…

…d amulets date back to different traditions, mainly Egyptian, Greek, Jewish and Gnostic. Strong links with magic are visible, revealed in the iconography, and above all in the inscriptions, most of which can be found in magical papyri. Some gems containing the image of Thoth refe…

…s of Producing, Protecting, and Sharing Knowledge in Antiquity as a Context for Gnostic Esotericism Mito y Revelación en Plutarco. O de cómo el Conocimiento divino alcanza a los hombres En su acercamiento a la filosofía griega, los estudios modernos tienden a destacar, a mi ver d…

…eans. We know from, for example, the literature recovered at Nag Hammadi , that gnostic Christianity didn't have the kind of clear hierarchy that other forms of Christianity had developed. They still clung to a charismatic leadership model. And so there was a lot of variety in 2n…

…’ works and their use by subsequent Pagans, I locate Watts as a source for both gnostic realization and erotic transmutation through cosmic hierogamy. Drawing on Hans-Georg Gadamer's hermeneutic theory, I contend that Watts’ commitment to gnostic and erotic themes enframed a …

…repay you. You are God's greatest blessing to me. vi TABLE OF CONTENTS Download Gnostic Christocentric and Christotelic Hermeneutics? A New Foundation from Irenaeus of Lyons This paper will show that both sides in the contemporary debate within evangelicalism—Christocent... more …

…thinkers called by Richard Wolin ‘Heideggers children’: initially marked by the Gnostic aura of the Weimar era, they all eventually put themselves to the task of ‘overcoming Gnosticism,’ which would leave the dualistic influence of Heidegger, Barth and Harnack behind and attempt …

…stablishing the necessary conditions for the possibility of knowledge. Download Gnostic Scientism and Technocratic Totalitarianism Download An Eastern Orthodox Understanding of the Dangers of Modernity and Technology This paper argues that the ideologies of Modernity motivating o…

…ns in Fourth-Century Egypt according to Epiphanius of Salamis (Panarion 31.7.1) Gnosticism and Its Metamorphoses: Dynamics of Development and Reworking of Gnostic Texts and Motifs from Antiquity to the Twentieth Century , F. Berno & A. Annese (eds.) , 2025 The article addresses p…

…n Late Victorian England Aries , 2013 This article surveys the reception of the Gnostic text Pistis Sophia in esoteric milieus in ninet... more This article surveys the reception of the Gnostic text Pistis Sophia in esoteric milieus in nineteenth-and early twentieth-century Europ…

…ith, and understanding of, Judaism. From 'Gnosis und spätantiker Geist' to 'The Gnostic Religion': The Jerusalem Period in Hans Jonas’s Intellectual Development Hans Jonas: The Early Years, edited by Daniel M. Herskowitz, Elad Lapidot, and Christian Wiese , 2024 Anyone who reads …

… Judaic rejection and condemnation of love for one's one sex. In addition, from Gnostic speculation on the role of sexuality in the cosmic process, Christians acquired a profound malaise with sexual dimorphism (as an imperfect human condition) and the ideal of an asexual humanity…

…rs – the ambiguities that emerge from an isolated emotive contact with God, the gnostic tendencies to turn Christianity into a product of the human subject, the reduction of Christian life to a moral and immanent exercise, the technocratic transformation of experience into an app…