The Gnostics : : Myth, Ritual, and Diversity in Early Christianity /

The Gnostics : : Myth, Ritual, and Diversity in Early Christianity / / David Brakke.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
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Brakke, David,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (180 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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