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100 1 $aWilliams, Michael A.
245 14 $aThe immovable race :$ba gnostic designation and the theme of stability in late antiquity /$cby Michael Allen Williams.
260 0 $aLeiden :$bBrill,$c1985.
300 $axii, 239 p. ;$c25 cm.
440 0 $aNag Hammadi studies ;$v29
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [210]-220) and index.
505 0 $aI. The term asaleutos and its significance -- A. The theme in Jewish literature of Yahweh's people "who will not be moved" -- B. The term asaleutos in Hellenistic-Roman literature -- The immovability of transcendent things -- Immovable humans -- C. Conclusion -- II. Immovability in The three steles of Seth -- A. The "standing" Adamas -- B. The Greek term hestanai and the immovability of the transcendent -- C. 3StSeth and the Simonian "standing one" -- D. Significance of "standing" language used of Adamas rather than Barbelo or the preexistent -- Differentiation between the Noetic realm and its source in Platonic traditions -- Differentiation between the Noetic realm and its source in 3StSeth -- The Noetic realm, the perfect human, and immovability
505 0 $aIII. Immovability in Zostrianos -- A. Introduction -- B. "Standing" of the visionary Zostrianos -- D. Transcendental "standing" in late antiquity -- The standing of the soul in the transcendent in Platonic tradition -- "Standing before God" in Jewish and Christian apocalyptic -- E. Literal standing practiced by spiritual heroes -- Practice of standing in Christian monasticism -- Socrates' habit of standing still -- Summary -- F. Asceticism as a manifestation of immovability in Zost: The fleeing of femaleness as a transition to stability
505 0 $aIV. Immovability in The Apocryphon of John -- A. The stability of the transcendent realm: "Standing aeons" -- B. The mistake of Sophia as an etiology of movement -- C. Being "set right" as the recovery of stability -- D. Immovability and passionlessness -- E. Movement and cosmic powers -- F. The instability of fate vs. immovable pronoia -- G. Summary -- V. Immovability in The Gospel of the Egyptians -- VI. Immovability in The Sophia of Jesus Christ
505 0 $aVII. The inclusiveness of the immovable race -- A. Introduction -- B. The absence of soteriological determinism -- C. Membership in the immovable race as the achievement of perfect humanity -- D. The immovable race as open-ended -- VIII. The immovable race and the question of sectarian Sitz im Leben -- A. Community theology or individual speculations? -- B. Signs of communal commitments -- C. indications of ore than one social group -- D. "Sethian" or "extra-Sethian" origins of the designation?
650 0 $aGnosticism.
650 0 $aRest$xReligious aspects.
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