Dynamics of language

Dynamics of language

by Martin, Lutz

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The essays in Practicing Gnosis demonstrate that the Gnostics were not necessarily trendy intellectuals seeking epistomological certainities. Instead, this book explores how Gnostics were seeking religious experiences that relied on practices including ritual, magic, liturgy, and theurgy. This book celebrates the career of Birger A. Pearson.

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  • Full title :Dynamics of language / by Lutz Martin.

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The essays in Practicing Gnosis demonstrate that the Gnostics were not necessarily trendy intellectuals seeking epistomological certainities. Instead, this book explores how Gnostics were seeking religious experiences that relied on practices including ritual, magic, liturgy, and theurgy. This book celebrates the career of Birger A. Pearson.

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  • Publication Date:2006.

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (xiii, 442 pages).

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9789004248526, 9004248528, 9789004256293, 9004256296
  • oclc:ocn987650476
  • LC Classification:P121
  • Dewey Decimal:299.932

Table of Contents

Introduction; A TRIBUTE TO BIRGER A. PEARSON; George W.E. Nickelsburg. For Birger Pearson: A Scholar Who Both Studies and Embodies Syncretism; Gerald James Larson. Religionsgeschichtliche Schule, Religionswissenschaft, Piano, Oboe and Bourbon; Gregory Shaw. Birger Pearson: Scholar, Professor and Mentor; Birger Albert Pearson A Bibliography; SECTION ONE. INITIATORY PRACTICES; April D. DeConick. The Road for the Soul Is through the Planets: The Mysteries of the Ophians Mapped; Roger Beck. Ecstatic Religion in the Roman Cult of Mithras.

Bas van Os. The Gospel of Philip as Gnostic Initiatory DiscourseElliot R. Wolfson. Becoming Invisible: Rending the Veil and the Hermeneutic of Secrecy in the Gospel of Philip; Erin Evans. Ritual in the Second Book of Jeu; Nicola Denzey Lewis. Death on the Nile: Egyptian Codices, Gnosticism, and Early Christian Books of the Dead; SECTION TWO. RECURRENT PRACTICES; Einar Thomassen. Going to Church with the Valentinians; Madeleine Scopello. Practicing ""Repentance"" on the Path to Gnosis in Exegesis on the Soul.

Edward P. Butler. Opening the Way of Writing: Semiotic Metaphysics in the Book of ThothFernando Bermejo-Rubio. ""I Worship and Glorify"": Manic…

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Subjects

Langage et langues language (general communication) Language and languages languages (study discipline) linguistics Linguistique

Writers

Martin, Lutz

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