Title Statements
- Full title :Sethian gnosticism and the platonic tradition / by John D. Turner.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:2001.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Presses de l'Universite Laval
- Place of Publication:Sainte-Foy, Quebec
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2001.
The Physical Object
- Description:xix, 842 pages ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:2763778348, 9782763778341, 2877236102, 9782877236102, 9042910887, 9789042910881
- oclc:ocm48076736
- LC Classification:BT1391
- Dewey Decimal:273/.1
Table of Contents
The problem of the relation between gnosticism and Platonism -- pt. 1. Sethian gnosticism. The literature of gnostic Sethianism -- Interdependencies among the Sethian treatises -- The chronology and redaction of the Sethian tretises. 1. Treatises of the descent pattern -- The chronology and redaction of the Sethian tretises. 2. Treatises of the ascent pattern and summary -- The building blocks of Sethian doctrine -- The history of the Sethian movement -- pt. 2. The Platonic tradition. The beginnings of Platonic speculation on first principles -- Middle Platonic speculation on first principles -- Early neoplatonic speculation on first principles -- Body, soul, and knowledge of God in Platonism : descent and ascent -- pt. 3. The Platonizing Sethian treatises. The divine and cosmic hierarchy of the Platonizing Sethian treatises I -- The divine and cosmic hierarchy of the Platonizing Sethian treatises II -- Sethian doctrines of the soul -- The knowledge of God in the Platonizing Sethian treatises -- Sethian gnosticism and the Platonic tradition -- Conclusion: The development of the Sethian religion. Concluding overview of Sethian religious development.
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