Cosmology and fate in gnosticism and Graeco-Roman antiquity [[electronic resource] ] : under pitiless skies / / by Nicola Denzey Lewis
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Lewis Nicola Denzey <1966->
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| Titolo: |
Cosmology and fate in gnosticism and Graeco-Roman antiquity [[electronic resource] ] : under pitiless skies / / by Nicola Denzey Lewis
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| Pubblicazione: | Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (220 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 299/.932 |
| Soggetto topico: | Cosmology |
| Fate and fatalism | |
| Gnosticism | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Title from PDF title page (viewed on May 14, 2013). |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Front Matter / Nicola Denzey Lewis -- Introduction / Nicola Denzey Lewis -- Were the Gnostics Cosmic Pessimists? / Nicola Denzey Lewis -- Nag Hammadi and the Providential Cosmos / Nicola Denzey Lewis -- ‘This Body of Death’: Cosmic Malevolence and Enslavement to Sin in Pauline Exegesis / Nicola Denzey Lewis -- Heimarmene at Nag Hammadi: The Apocryphon of John and On the Origin of the World / Nicola Denzey Lewis -- Middle Platonism, Heimarmene, and the Corpus Hermeticum / Nicola Denzey Lewis -- Ways Out I: Interventions of the Savior God / Nicola Denzey Lewis -- Ways Out II: Baptism and Cosmic Freedom: A New Genesis / Nicola Denzey Lewis -- Astral ‘Determinism’ in the Gospel of Judas / Nicola Denzey Lewis -- Conclusions, and a New Way Forward / Nicola Denzey Lewis -- Selected Bibliography / Nicola Denzey Lewis -- Subject Index / Nicola Denzey Lewis. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Cosmology and fate in gnosticism and Graeco-Roman antiquity |
| ISBN: | 90-04-24576-6 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910463151103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies ; 81.