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"Gnosticism" has become a problematic category in the study of early Christianity. It obscures diversity, invites essentialist generalisations, and is a legacy of ancient heresiology. However, simply to conclude with "diversity" is unsatisfying, and new efforts to discern cohere…
This public lecture is staged annually in memory of the ecclesiastic historian Hans Lietzmann (1875-1942), Adolf von Harnacks's successor as director of the Academy project The Greek Christian Authors of the First Centuries (GDS). The invited speaker is an internationally renown…
Many in continental philosophy of religion aver that we are in a new moment, one where the intellectually marginalized and religiously bastardized traditions of mystical, intuitive, and esoteric apprehensions must be re-articulated and appreciated anew. In an era marked by catas…
Metaphysik
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Muslim communities developing around charismatic Sufi marabouts in twentieth-century West Africa represented the fruition of enduring values concerning the carrying of sacred knowledge in the bodily presence of Muslim scholars. Muslim mystics were not ahistorical constants in th…
Symbols are the first and most pervasive way individuals and cultures communicate. They are holders of value and meaning, multivocal and adaptive by nature, and are transformative as they reconcile opposites and establish reality. Symbols are accessed through the imagination and…
Cracking the gnostic code: the powers in gnosticism
by Wink, Walter
fromMonograph series
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Type: Book