The Gnostics : : Myth, Ritual, and Diversity in Early Christianity / / David Brakke.
Brakke writes a pioneering study of the way the demon role relates to religious thinking and to cultural anxieties. The author’s sources include biographies of exceptional monks, collections of monastic sayings and stories, letters from ascetic teachers to their disciples, sermons, community rules,...
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Brakke, David, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Gnostics : Myth, Ritual, and Diversity in Early Christianity / David Brakke. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2012] ©2012 1 online resource (180 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ABBREVIATIONS -- 1 IMAGINING “GNOSTICISM” AND EARLY CHRISTIANITIES -- 2 IDENTIFYING THE GNOSTICS AND THEIR LITERATURE -- 3 THE MYTH AND RITUA L S O F THE GNOSTIC SCHOOL OF THOUGHT -- 4 UNITY AND DIVERSITY IN SECOND- CENTURY ROME -- 5 STRATEGIES OF SELF - DIFFERENTIATION -- NOTES -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PRIMARY SOURCES IN TRANSLATION -- INDEX restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Brakke writes a pioneering study of the way the demon role relates to religious thinking and to cultural anxieties. The author’s sources include biographies of exceptional monks, collections of monastic sayings and stories, letters from ascetic teachers to their disciples, sermons, community rules, and biblical commentaries. When monks imagined the resistance that they had to overcome in cultivating their selves or the temptation that offered an easier path, they saw supernatural beings that could take the shapes of animals, women, boys, and false angels in their attempts to seduce monks away from their devotion to God. And when they considered the inclinations in their own selves that opposed their best intentions, they concluded that demons introduced such problematic “thoughts” to their minds. Although the last twenty years has seen an explosion of scholarship on early Christian asceticism, producing brilliant explorations of the body, sexual renunciation, fasting, and gender, combat with demons has been left relatively unexplored. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022) Church history Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600. Gnosticism. RELIGION / Gnosticism. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999 9783110442212 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442205 https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674058897?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674058897 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674058897/original |
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