In Cosmology and Fate in Gnosticism and Graeco-Roman Antiquity, 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 “Gnostic” writings including the Apocryphon of John, the recently-discovered Gospel of Judas, Trimorphic Protennoia, and the Pistis Sophia, this book reexamines their language of “enslavement to fate (Gk: heimarmene)” from its origins in Greek Stoicism, its deployment by the apostle Paul, to its later use by a variety of second-century intellectuals (both Christian and non-Christian). Denzey Lewis thus offers an informed and revisionist conceptual map of the ancient cosmos, its influence, and all those who claimed to be free of its potentially pernicious effects.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9789004245488
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-90-04-24548-8
- Verlag: Brill
- Erscheinungstermin: 28.03.2013
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2013
- Serie: Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies
- Produktform: Gebunden
- Gewicht: 470 g
- Seiten: 206
- Format (B x H x T): 159 x 241 x 20 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt