"In this book, 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 'Gnos…
"In this book, 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 'Gnos…
Could the best thing about religion be the heresies it spawns? Leading intellectuals in interwar Europe thought so. They believed that they lived in a world made derelict by God's absence and the interruption of his call. In response, they helped resurrect gnosticism and panthei…
Could the best thing about religion be the heresies it spawns? Leading intellectuals in interwar Europe thought so. They believed that they lived in a world made derelict by God's absence and the interruption of his call. In response, they helped resurrect gnosticism and panthei…
Le corpus des Évangiles s'est enrichi, depuis la découverte des manuscrits de Nag Hammadi, de nombreux textes fascinants attribués à Thomas, Philippe ou encore Pierre. Parmi eux, « l'Évangile de Marie » est le seul attribué à une femme ; écrit vers l'an 150, il est aussi un témo…
Presents a readable and appealing introduction to what otherwise might seem an inaccessible religion of late antiquity.
