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An edition of Cosmology and fate in Gnosticism and Graeco-Roman antiquity (2013)

Cosmology and fate in Gnosticism and Graeco-Roman antiquity

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"In this book, Nicola Denzey Lewis dismisses Hans Jonas' mischaracterization of second-century Gnosticism as a philosophically-oriented religious movement built on the perception of the cosmos as negative or enslaving. A focused study on the concept of astrological fate in 'Gnostic' writings including the Apocryphon of John, the recently-discovered Gospel of Judas, Trimorphic Protennoia, and the Pistis Sophia, this book reexamines their language of 'enslavement to fate' from its origins in Greek Stoicism, its deployment by the Apostle Paul, to its later use by a variety of second-century intellectuals (both Christian and non-Christian)."--Publisher description.

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Brill
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English
Pages
206

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Subjects

Religious aspects, Relations, Cosmology, Nag Hammadi codices, Christianity, Apocryphon of John, Christianity and other religions, Sophia of Jesus Christ, Tripartite tractate, Fate and fatalism, Gnosticism

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Hans Jonas (1903-1993)
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Cosmology and fate in Gnosticism and Graeco-Roman antiquity: under pitiless skies
2013, Brill
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Table of Contents

Were the Gnostics cosmic pessimists?
Nag Hammadi and the providential cosmos
This body of death : cosmic malevolence and enslavement to sin in Pauline exegesis
Heimarmene at Nag Hammadi : the Apocryphon of John and On the origin of the world
Middle Platonism, heimarmene, and the Corpus Hermeticum
Ways out I : interventions of the savior god
Ways out II : baptism and cosmic freedom : a new genesis
Astral determinism in the Gospel of Judas
Conclusions, and a new way forward.

Edition Notes

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Princeton University, 1998.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-202) and index.

Series
Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies -- 81
Other Titles
Under pitiless skies

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Dewey Decimal Class
299/.932
Library of Congress
BT1390 .L49 2013, BT1390.L48 2013, BT1390 .L48 2013

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xiii, 206 pages
Number of pages
206

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OL27027647M
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cosmologyfategno00lewi
ISBN 10
9004245480
ISBN 13
9789004245488, 9789004245761
LCCN
2012048689
OCLC/WorldCat
822229917

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