LEADER 04709nam 22006733u 450 001 9910787794303321 005 20230803031450.0 035 $a(CKB)2670000000424526 035 $a(EBL)1378742 035 $a(OCoLC)858229765 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000983568 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11557762 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000983568 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11010928 035 $a(PQKB)11290870 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1378742 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000424526 100 $a20140721d2013|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPracticing Gnosis$b[electronic resource] $eRitual, Magic, Theurgy and Liturgy in Nag Hammadi, Manichaean and Other Ancient Literature. Essays in Honor of Birger A. Pearson 210 $aLeiden $cBRILL$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (581 p.) 225 1 $aNag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-04-25629-6 327 $aContents; Introduction; A TRIBUTE TO BIRGER A. PEARSON; George W.E. Nickelsburg. For Birger Pearson: A Scholar Who Both Studies and Embodies Syncretism; Gerald James Larson. Religionsgeschichtliche Schule, Religionswissenschaft, Piano, Oboe and Bourbon; Gregory Shaw. Birger Pearson: Scholar, Professor and Mentor; Birger Albert Pearson A Bibliography; SECTION ONE. INITIATORY PRACTICES; April D. DeConick. The Road for the Soul Is through the Planets: The Mysteries of the Ophians Mapped; Roger Beck. Ecstatic Religion in the Roman Cult of Mithras 327 $aBas van Os. The Gospel of Philip as Gnostic Initiatory DiscourseElliot R. Wolfson. Becoming Invisible: Rending the Veil and the Hermeneutic of Secrecy in the Gospel of Philip; Erin Evans. Ritual in the Second Book of Jeu; Nicola Denzey Lewis. Death on the Nile: Egyptian Codices, Gnosticism, and Early Christian Books of the Dead; SECTION TWO. RECURRENT PRACTICES; Einar Thomassen. Going to Church with the Valentinians; Madeleine Scopello. Practicing ""Repentance"" on the Path to Gnosis in Exegesis on the Soul 327 $aEdward P. Butler. Opening the Way of Writing: Semiotic Metaphysics in the Book of ThothFernando Bermejo-Rubio. ""I Worship and Glorify"": Manichaean Liturgy and Piety in Kellis' Prayer of the Emanations; Jason David BeDuhn. The Manichaean Weekly Confession Ritual; Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley. Ritual Ingenuity in the Mandaean Scroll of Exalted Kingship; SECTION THREE. THERAPEUTIC PRACTICES; Naomi Janowitz. Natural, Magical, Scientific or Religious? A Guide to Theories of Healing; Grant Adamson. Astrological Medicine in Gnostic Traditions 327 $aMarvin Meyer. The Persistence of Ritual in the Magical Book of Mary and the Angels P. Heid. Inv. Kopt. 685Rebecca Lesses. Image and Word: Performative Ritual and Material Culture in the Aramaic Incantation Bowls; SECTION FOUR. ECSTATIC PRACTICES; John D. Turner. From Baptismal Vision to Mystical Union with the One: The Case of the Sethian Gnostics; Niclas Fo?rster. Marcosian Rituals for Prophecy and Apolytrosis; James R. Davila. Ritual in the Hekhalot Literature; SECTION FIVE. PHILOSOPHIC PRACTICES; Zeke Mazur. The Platonizing Sethian Gnostic Interpretation of Plato's Sophist 327 $aMichael A. Williams. Did Plotinus ""Friends"" Still Go to Church? Communal Rituals and Ascent ApocalypsesKevin Corrigan. The Meaning of ""One"" Plurality and Unity in Plotinus and Later Neoplatonism; Gregory Shaw. Theurgy and the Platonist's Luminous Body; Index 330 $aThe essays in Practicing Gnosis demonstrate that the Gnostics were not necessarily trendy intellectuals seeking epistomological certainities. Instead, this book explores how Gnostics were seeking religious experiences that relied on practices including ritual, magic, liturgy, and theurgy. This book celebrates the career of Birger A. Pearson. 410 0$aNag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies 606 $aGnosticism -- History 606 $aNeoplatonism 606 $aOccultism 606 $aGnosticism$xHistory 606 $aPhilosophy & Religion$2HILCC 606 $aPhilosophy$2HILCC 615 4$aGnosticism -- History. 615 4$aNeoplatonism. 615 4$aOccultism. 615 0$aGnosticism$xHistory 615 7$aPhilosophy & Religion 615 7$aPhilosophy 676 $a299.932 700 $aDeConick$b April$01501942 701 $aShaw$b Gregory$01501943 701 $aTurner$b John D$0156951 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787794303321 996 $aPracticing Gnosis$93729374 997 $aUNINA