A New Gnosis

Author : David M. Odorisio
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783031201271

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Superhero phenomena exploded into 20th- and 21st-century popular culture by way of the visual medium of comic books. In an increasingly secular (yet spiritual) culture that has largely renounced “the gods” (and even religion), what does the return of the superhero through our own pop cultural mythologies say to us—or even about us? This collection of essays from leading and up-and-coming scholars in the fields of comparative mythology and depth psychology considers the return of the superhero as representative of our own unique emergent modern mythology: a wildly diverse pantheon that reflects back to us our most far-reaching hopes and (im)possible (super)human desires. In placing the interpretive tools of comparative mythology and depth psychology alongside the comic book phenomenon, a super-powered palette emerges that unveils the hidden potential of modern readers’ own heightened imaginations. The essays in this anthology examine select comic book and superhero characters from the “Silver Age” 1960s through contemporary 21st-century adaptations and innovations, as readers are invited to discover and uncover what the (re)emergence of these perennial gods and goddesses have to say about our own secret super selves today.

Author : Robert Avens
Publisher : Spring Publications, Incorporated
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0882140752

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Gnosis, in the hands of Roberts Avens, is a perennial philosophy of the heart. This book provides a readable, uncomplicated, and reliable introduction to Gnostic thought in the works of Martin Heidegger and James Hillman. As a psychological philosopher, Avens brings fresh meaning to the basic gnostic ideas about angels, salvation through knowledge, and the world as alive and ensouled. Therapies that encourage personified images and ecology movements concerned with the soul in things can find a profound philosophical ground in this new Gnosis.Third, revised edition

Author : Roberts Avens
Publisher : Spring Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0882143271

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Gnosis, in the hands of Roberts Avens, is a perennial philosophy of the heart. He provides a readable, uncomplicated, and reliable introduction to the Gnosis going on today in the poetical thought of Martin Heidegger and the archetypal psychology of James Hillman. As a psychological philosopher, Avens brings fresh meanings to basic gnostic ideas about angels, salvation through knowledge, and the world as alive and ensouled. Therapies that encourage personified images and ecology movements concerned with the soul in things can find here a profound philosophical ground in The New Gnosis.

Author : Roberts Avens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Religion
ISBN : UCAL:B3924862

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The New Gnosis by Roberts Avens Pdf

Gnosis, in the hands of Roberts Avens, is a perennial philosophy of the heart. He provides a readable, uncomplicated, and reliable introduction to the Gnosis going on today in the poetical thought of Martin Heidegger and the archetypal psychology of James Hillman. As a psychological philosopher, Avens brings fresh meanings to basic gnostic ideas about angels, salvation through knowledge, and the world as alive and ensouled. Therapies that encourage personified images and ecology movements concerned with the soul in things can find here a profound philosophical ground in The New Gnosis.

Author : Don Cruse
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2002-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780595224456

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Evolution and the New Gnosis by Don Cruse Pdf

Exposing a long-hidden logical conflict that has hindered the quest for a deeper understanding in science, religion and philosophy. The unique ideas in this book shatter what are often unconscious or deeply hidden but nevertheless widely held assumptions. Whatever your world view or discipline, examine it anew through the window of these 22 hard-hitting essays with titles such as: Evolution as a Property of Mind, Christianity and the Old Gnosis, Isaac Newton & Harry Potter, What is Imagination? - combined with critical insights and commentaries on the works of Charles Darwin, Noam Chomsky, Michael Polanyi, Arthur Koestler, Theodore Roszak, Owen Barfield, Rudolf Steiner and many others. Also, investigate the social future as viewed in the light of an ongoing evolution of human consciousness.

Author : April D. DeConick
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780231542043

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The Gnostic New Age by April D. DeConick Pdf

Gnosticism is a countercultural spirituality that forever changed the practice of Christianity. Before it emerged in the second century, passage to the afterlife required obedience to God and king. Gnosticism proposed that human beings were manifestations of the divine, unsettling the hierarchical foundations of the ancient world. Subversive and revolutionary, Gnostics taught that prayer and mediation could bring human beings into an ecstatic spiritual union with a transcendent deity. This mystical strain affected not just Christianity but many other religions, and it characterizes our understanding of the purpose and meaning of religion today. In The Gnostic New Age, April D. DeConick recovers this vibrant underground history to prove that Gnosticism was not suppressed or defeated by the Catholic Church long ago, nor was the movement a fabrication to justify the violent repression of alternative forms of Christianity. Gnosticism alleviated human suffering, soothing feelings of existential brokenness and alienation through the promise of renewal as God. DeConick begins in ancient Egypt and follows with the rise of Gnosticism in the Middle Ages, the advent of theosophy and other occult movements in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and contemporary New Age spiritual philosophies. As these theories find expression in science-fiction and fantasy films, DeConick sees evidence of Gnosticism's next incarnation. Her work emphasizes the universal, countercultural appeal of a movement that embodies much more than a simple challenge to religious authority.

Author : Alastair Logan,Alexander J. M. Wedderburn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781474230438

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The New Testament and Gnosis by Alastair Logan,Alexander J. M. Wedderburn Pdf

Important essays on Gnosis and Gnosticism. Contributors include Rudolph, Pagels, Grant, and Barrett.

Author : Stephan A Hoeller
Publisher : Quest Books
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780835630139

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Gnosticism by Stephan A Hoeller Pdf

Gnosticism developed alongside Judeo-Christianity over two thousand years ago, but with an important difference: It emphasizes, not faith, but direct perception of God--Gnosticism being derived from the Greek word gnosis, meaning "knowledge." Given the controversial premise that one can know God directly, the history of Gnosticism is an unfolding drama of passion, political intrigue, martyrdom, and mystery. Dr. Hoeller traces this fascinating story throughout time and shows how Gnosticism has inspired such great thinkers as Voltaire, Blake, Yeats, Hesse, Melville, and Jung.

Author : Carl A. Raschke
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Religion
ISBN : UVA:X000142870

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The Interruption of Eternity by Carl A. Raschke Pdf

Author : R. van den Broek,Wouter J. Hanegraaff
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 079143611X

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Gnosis and Hermeticism from Antiquity to Modern Times by R. van den Broek,Wouter J. Hanegraaff Pdf

This volume introduces what has sometimes been called "the third component of western culture". It traces the historical development of those religious traditions which have rejected a world view based on the primacy of pure rationality or doctrinal faith, emphasizing instead the importance of inner enlightenment or gnosis: a revelatory experience which was typically believed to entail an encounter with one's true self as well as with the ground of being, God. The contributors to this book demonstrate this perspective as fundamental to a variety of interconnected traditions. In Antiquity, one finds the gnostics and hermetics; in the Middle Ages several Christian sects. The medieval Cathars can, to a certain extent, be considered part of the same tradition. Starting with the Italian humanist Renaissance, hermetic philosophy became of central importance to a new religious synthesis that can be referred to as Western Esotericism. The development of this tradition is described from Renaissance hermeticists and practitioners of spiritual alchemy to the emergence of Rosicrucianism and Christian theosophy in the seventeenth century, and from post-enlightenment aspects of Romanticism and occultism to the present-day New Age movement.

Author : Peter Wilberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781904519072

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From New Age to New Gnosis by Peter Wilberg Pdf

Peter Wilberg presents a political history of the subversive 'gnostic' theologies of the first century, and with it, a theo-political critique of the ruling god-concepts of the 21st century. 'From New Age to New Gnosis' is spiritual Marxism and a powerful spearhead aimed at the 'New World Order' of economic 'liberalism', neo-conservatism and military imperialism. It challenges all four faces of its famous dollar pyramid - the 'i-dollartry' of new technologies, the reduction of the human being to a genetic machine, the politically illiterate platitudes of New Age 'spirituality' - and the spiritual illiterate 'literalism' of Christian biblical fundamentalism and racist Zionazism - which now see their own zealotry mirrored and confronted by militant Islam. What Peter Wilberg's recognises is that what our divided world now calls for is not a revival of fundamentalisms of any sort but a New Gnostic spirituality that understands the "wordless knowledge within the word" (Seth).

Author : Kurt Rudolph
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2001-06-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567086402

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Gnosis by Kurt Rudolph Pdf

Translated by R. McL. WilsonA full-scale study based on the documents of the Coptic Gnostic library found at Nag Hammadi providing a comprehensive survey of the nature, the teachings, the history and the influence of this religion.

Author : Pheme Perkins
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1451415974

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Gnosticism and the New Testament by Pheme Perkins Pdf

The gnostic writings found at Nag Hammadi have stimulated much controversy about the relationship between early Christians and the diverse religious movement of the first three centuries. Perkins fills the New Testament student's need for a guide to recent developments in scholarship with a helpful survey that addresses the origins of Gnosticism, its relationship to Judaism, Redeemer myths and New Testament hymns, and other relevant topics.

Author : Frithjof Schuon
Publisher : World Wisdom, Inc
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781933316185

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Gnosis by Frithjof Schuon Pdf

This new edition of Frithjof Schuon's classic work, Gnosis: Divine Wisdom, is a fully revised translation of the most recent French edition, and has an extensive Appendix containing previously unpublished letters and other private writings.

Author : Christoph Markschies
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2003-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567089444

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Gnosis by Christoph Markschies Pdf

This introduction to Gnosis by Christoph Markschies combines great clarity with immense learning.In his Introduction Markschies defines the term Gnosis and its relationship to 'Gnosticism', indicating why Gnosis is preferable and sketches out the main problems. He then treats the sources, both those in the church fathers and heresiologists, and the more recent Nag Hammadi finds. He goes on to discuss early forms of 'Gnosis' in antiquity, Jewish and Christian (New Testament) and the early Gnostics; the main representatives of Gnosis, especially Valentinus and Marcion; Manichaeism as the culmination and end-point of Gnosis; ancient communities of 'Gnostics'; and finally 'Gnosis' in antiquity and the present.There is a useful chronological table and an excellent select bibliography.