Cosmology and fate in gnosticism and Graeco-Roman antiquity : under pitiless skies / / by Nicola Denzey Lewis.
In Cosmology and Fate in Gnosticism and Graeco-Roman Antiquity , 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 con...
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| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (220 p.) |
| Notes: | Title from PDF title page (viewed on May 14, 2013). |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter / Nicola Denzey Lewis
- Introduction / Nicola Denzey Lewis
- Were the Gnostics Cosmic Pessimists? / Nicola Denzey Lewis
- Nag Hammadi and the Providential Cosmos / Nicola Denzey Lewis
- ‘This Body of Death’: Cosmic Malevolence and Enslavement to Sin in Pauline Exegesis / Nicola Denzey Lewis
- Heimarmene at Nag Hammadi: The Apocryphon of John and On the Origin of the World / Nicola Denzey Lewis
- Middle Platonism, Heimarmene, and the Corpus Hermeticum / Nicola Denzey Lewis
- Ways Out I: Interventions of the Savior God / Nicola Denzey Lewis
- Ways Out II: Baptism and Cosmic Freedom: A New Genesis / Nicola Denzey Lewis
- Astral ‘Determinism’ in the Gospel of Judas / Nicola Denzey Lewis
- Conclusions, and a New Way Forward / Nicola Denzey Lewis
- Selected Bibliography / Nicola Denzey Lewis
- Subject Index / Nicola Denzey Lewis.