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Author : F. C. Burkitt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781107631380
This 1932 book contains five lectures delivered about the relationship between Church doctrine and Gnostic thought by F. C. Burkitt.
Author : Francis Crawford Burkitt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Gnosticism
ISBN : OCLC:940147619
Author : Riemer Roukema
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028547821
In this introductory handbook, Riemer Roukema explores the meaning of the "gnosis" phenomenon and sets forth the relationship between Gnosticism and the church.
Author : Francis Crawford Burkitt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:602719369
Author : Philip J. Lee
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1993-08-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190282097
In this penetrating and provocative assessment of the current state of religion and its effects on society at large, Philip J. Lee criticizes conservatives and liberals alike as he traces gnostic motifs to the very roots of American Protestantism. With references to an extraordinary spectrum of writings from sources as diverse as John Calvin, Martin Buber, Tom Wolfe, Margaret Atwood, and Emily Dickinson, he probes the effects of gnostic thinking on a wide range of issues. Calling for the restoration of a dialectical faith and practice, the book points to positive ways of restoring health to endangered Protestant churches.
Author : Christoph Markschies
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567089444
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.
Author : David Brakke
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780674262331
Who were the Gnostics? And how did the Gnostic movement influence the development of Christianity in antiquity? Is it true that the Church rejected Gnosticism? This book offers an illuminating discussion of recent scholarly debates over the concept of “Gnosticism” and the nature of early Christian diversity. Acknowledging that the category “Gnosticism” is flawed and must be reformed, David Brakke argues for a more careful approach to gathering evidence for the ancient Christian movement known as the Gnostic school of thought. He shows how Gnostic myth and ritual addressed basic human concerns about alienation and meaning, offered a message of salvation in Jesus, and provided a way for people to regain knowledge of God, the ultimate source of their being. Rather than depicting the Gnostics as heretics or as the losers in the fight to define Christianity, Brakke argues that the Gnostics participated in an ongoing reinvention of Christianity, in which other Christians not only rejected their ideas but also adapted and transformed them. This book will challenge scholars to think in news ways, but it also provides an accessible introduction to the Gnostics and their fellow early Christians.
Author : Einar Thomassen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110705829
“Gnosticism” has become a problematic category in the study of early Christianity. It obscures diversity, invites essentialist generalisations, and is a legacy of ancient heresiology. However, simply to conclude with “diversity” is unsatisfying, and new efforts to discern coherence and to synthesise need to be made. The present work seeks to make a fresh start by concentrating on Irenaeus’ report on a specific group called the “Gnostics” and on his claim that Valentinus and his followers were inspired by their ideas. Following this lead, an attempt is made to trace the continuity of ideas from this group to Valentinianism. The study concludes that there is more continuity than has previously been recognised. Irenaeus’ “Gnostics” emerge as the predecessors not only of Valentinianism, but also of Sethianism. They represent an early, philosophically inspired form of Christ religion that arose independently of the New Testament canon. Christology is essential and provides the basis for the myth of Sophia. The book is relevant for all students of Christian origins and the early history of the Church.
Author : Karen L. King
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0674017625
A study of gnosticism examines the various ways early Christians strove to define themselves in a pluralistic Roman society, while questioning the traditional ideas of heresy and orthodoxy that have previously influenced historians.
Author : G.R.S. Mead
Publisher : Leonardo Paolo Lovari
Page : 879 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9788885519213
The writing of the present work has been a congenial task to Mr. Mead, and he has brought to bear lovingly and zealously upon the portraiture of the figure of Christ and of early Christianity, all the knowledge which a deep study of Oriental religions from their emotional side could furnish.The outset that there is very little of what is commonly regarded as the Theosophic method apparent in the work, which is the product of a scholarly though withal very devotional spirit. Mr. Mead's aim has been to enable the reader to obtain a glimpse of a world of which he has never heard at school, and of which no word is ever breathed from the pulpit; to take him away from the pictures which the rationalists and the apologists have presented, and to enable him to obtain an unimpeded view of that wonderful panorama of religious strife which the first two centuries of our era presented. He will here see a religious world of immense activity, a vast upheaval of thought and a strenuousness of religious endeavor to which the history of the Western world gives no parallel. Thousands of schools and communities on every hand, striving and contending, a vast freedom of thought, a mighty effort to live the religious life. Here he finds innumerable points of contact with other' religions; he moves in an atmosphere of freedom of which he has previously had no experience in Christian tradition. Who are all these people—not fishermen and slaves and the poor and destitute, though those are striving too—but these men of learning and ascetic life, saints and sages as much as many others to whom the name has been given with far less reason?
Author : Tobias Churton
Publisher : Barnes & Noble Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Christian heresies
ISBN : 0760704783
The Greek word 'gnosis' means knowledge; the Gnostics themselves used it to refer to the spiritual knowledge they believed would redeem them from what they regarded as the inherent evil of the material universe. As a mystical alternative tradition within Christianity, Gnosticism suffered the hostility of the official church and, as a result, remains largely unknown or misunderstood to this day.
Author : Francis Crawford BURKITT
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:559538344
Author : Michael Philliber
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781610974141
Gnostic Trends in the Local Church lays out the basic tenets of ancient and modern Gnosticism. Though there are various authors who have written about Gnosticism over the past two decades, many of them deal with New Age teaching, or in a more limited manner, to answer the momentary surge of The Da Vinci Code and the Gospel of Judas. Instead of going in those directions, Gnostic Trends in the Local Church focuses on the more likely place one will meet Gnosticism: in their own home congregation. Michael W. Philliber shows what the trends look like within a congregation and offers ways to remedy them, while abstaining from alarmism. This is an important book for pastors and other congregational leaders for providing them with tools (modern, ancient, and biblical) that will help them guide their people more firmly into the historic Christian faith.
Author : Roelof van den Broek
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781139620413
Gnostic religion is the expression of a religious worldview which is dominated by the concept of Gnosis, an esoteric knowledge of God and the human being which grants salvation to those who possess it. Roelof van den Broek presents here a fresh approach to the gnostic current of Late Antiquity within its historical and religious context, based on sources in Greek, Latin and Coptic, including discussions of the individual works of preserved gnostic literature. Van den Broek explores the various gnostic interpretations of the Christian faith that were current in the second and third centuries, whilst showing that despite its influence on early Christianity, gnostic religion was not a typically Christian phenomenon. This book will be of interest to theologians, historians of religion, students and scholars of the history of Late Antiquity and early Christianity, as well as specialists in ancient gnostic and hermetic traditions.
Author : F. C Burkitt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 125884933X
This is a new release of the original 1932 edition.