Rethinking "Gnosticism" : : An Argument for Dismantling a Dubious Category / / Michael Allen Williams.
Most anyone interested in such topics as creation mythology, Jungian theory, or the idea of "secret teachings" in ancient Judaism and Christianity has found "gnosticism" compelling. Yet the term "gnosticism," which often connotes a single rebellious movement against the...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [1999] ©1996 |
| Year of Publication: | 1999 |
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| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- FIGURES AND TABLES
- PREFACE
- ABBREVIATIONS
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER ONE. What Kind of Thing Do Scholars Mean by “Gnosticism”?. A LOOK AT FOUR CASES
- CHAPTER TWO. “Gnosticism” as a Category
- CHAPTER THREE. Protest Exegesis? or Hermeneutical Problem-Solving?
- CHAPTER FOUR. Parasites? or Innovators?
- CHAPTER FIVE. Anticosmic World-Rejection? or Sociocultural Accommodation?
- CHAPTER SIX. Hatred of the Body? or the Perfection of the Human?
- CHAPTER SEVEN. Asceticism . . . ?
- CHAPTER EIGHT . . . or Libertinism?
- CHAPTER NINE. Deterministic Elitism? or Inclusive Theories of Conversion?
- CHAPTER TEN. Where They Came From . . .
- CHAPTER ELEVEN . . . and What They Left Behind
- CONCLUSION
- NOTES
- MODERN WORKS CITED
- INDEX