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Cosmology and Fate in Gnosticism and Graeco-Roman Antiquity: Under Pitiless Skies

By Nicola Denzey Lewis

Book information

Publisher
BRILL
Year
2013
ISBN
9004245480, 9789004245488
ISSN
0929-2470
Google Books ID
EMEx2zQAxm4C
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2126450 bytes)
Series
Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies, 81
Pages
xiv+206\221
Topic
Religion Orthodoxy
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2013-05-16 07:48:43
Религиоведение;Религиоведение христианства;История

Description

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 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 (Gk: heimarmene)” 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). Denzey Lewis thus offers an informed and revisionist conceptual map of the ancient cosmos, its influence, and all those who claimed to be free of its potentially pernicious effects.

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