The Beliefnet guide to Gnosticism and other vanished Christianities

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" ... examines the alternative Christian ideas propagated by the Gnostics, Sethians, Valentinians, Marcionites, Encratites, and Montanists ... Special attention is given to sects that presented the greatest challenges to the developing orthodoxy: the Hermeticists, the Manicheans, and the Neoplatonists." Also includes material on "the secret Gospel of Mark and the Gospels of Mary and Thomas, plus the newly discovered Gospel of the Savior."

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Full title :The Beliefnet guide to Gnosticism and other vanished Christianities / Richard Valantasis ; preface by Marcus Borg.

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Publication Date:©2006.
Edition:1st Three Leaves Press ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Three Leaves Press
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2006.

The Physical Object

Description:xxix, 159 pages ; : 21 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0385514557, 9780385514552
oclc:ocm60931481
LC Classification:BT1390
Dewey Decimal:299/.932

Introduction: Not One Religion But Many -- The Invention of Orthodoxy -- The "Big Bang"' Theory of Christian Origins -- Timeline: A Chronology of Early Christian History and Literature The Many Kingdoms of God: Jesus and Diversity -- Multicultural Paul. The Varieties of Gnostic Experience: Buried Treasure -- What Is a Gnostic? -- What Did the Christian Gnostics Believe? -- Hidden Knowledge---The Key That Unlocks the Spirit -- The Myth of Sophia -- Gnostic Anthropology -- Gnostic Systems of Salvation -- Gnostic Biblical Interpretation -- Demons and Angels -- Prayer and Mystical Language -- The Succession of Teachers. Three Gnostic Sects: Who Were the Sethians? -- What Did the Sethians Believe? -- Who Were the Valentinian Gnostics? -- What Did the Valentinians Believe? -- Who Were the Carpocratians? -- What Did the Carpocratians Believe? A Non-Gnostic Challenge to Orthodoxy: Who Were the Marcionites? -- The Marcionite Scriptures -- Marcionite Theology. The Other Gospels: The Gospel of Mary -- The Gospel of Thomas -- The Gospel of the Savior. Feeling the Burn: Ascetic Christianity and the Quest for Bodily Purity: Who Were the "Continents" (aka Encratites)? -- A Different Kind of Roma…

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Christian heresies -- Early church Christian heresies -- History -- Early … Church history -- Primitive and early c… Church history -- Primitive and early c… Église -- Histoire -- ca 30-600 (Église… Gnosticism Gnosticisme Hérésies chrétiennes -- Histoire -- ca … History