1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462818603321

Autore

Broek R. van den

Titolo

Gnostic religion in antiquity / / Roelof van den Broek [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-139-61111-9

1-107-23772-6

1-139-61297-2

1-139-62227-7

1-283-94325-5

1-139-62599-3

1-139-60930-0

1-139-38165-2

1-139-61669-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 255 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

299/.93

Soggetti

Gnosticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Gnosis and Gnostic religion -- Gnostic literature I: tradition -- Gnostic literature II: texts -- Anti-Gnostic literature -- Gnosis: essence and expressions -- Backgrounds.

Sommario/riassunto

Gnostic religion is the expression of a religious worldview which is dominated by the concept of Gnosis, an esoteric knowledge of God and the human being which grants salvation to those who possess it. Roelof van den Broek presents here a fresh approach to the gnostic current of Late Antiquity within its historical and religious context, based on sources in Greek, Latin and Coptic, including discussions of the individual works of preserved gnostic literature. Van den Broek explores the various gnostic interpretations of the Christian faith that were current in the second and third centuries, whilst showing that despite its influence on early Christianity, gnostic religion was not a typically Christian phenomenon. This book will be of interest to



theologians, historians of religion, students and scholars of the history of Late Antiquity and early Christianity, as well as specialists in ancient gnostic and hermetic traditions.

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996391923403316

Autore

R. F (Richard Farnworth), <d. 1666.>

Titolo

The Scriptures vindication against the Scotish contradictors [[electronic resource] ] : By one John Stalham, and as he saith, preacher of the Gospel at Edenborough in Scotland. And the other tiled [sic], A serious review of some principles of the Quakers; wherein error is discovered, and truth defended; by P.E. and written with a pen at Edenborough, printed in the year 1655, and a written name, as if it were the printer called Peter English, but no printed name; and thus they shuffle, but laid open to their shame, and truth in this short answer is defended and cleared, and their errour is discovered, and they ensnared. Who both have manifested their contradictions both to the Scriptures, and their own writings, and so have not the people which they call Quakers. / / Published by a servant of the Lord Jesus, in Yorkeshire in England, known to the world by the name of Richard Farneworth

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : printed for Giles Calvert at the black spread Eagle at the west end of Pauls., 1655

Descrizione fisica

[4], 36 p

Soggetti

Society of Friends

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

In part a reply to "Contradictions of the Quakers (so called) to the Scriptures of God" by John Stalham; the other work has not been identified.

Annotation on Thomason copy: "Octob: 2d"; "Octob. 3d".

Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018