Gnostic Countercultures: Terror and Intrigue
April DeConick, Lautaro Roig Lanzillottaen Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 iul 2020
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9789004436985
ISBN-10: 9004436987
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
ISBN-10: 9004436987
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Notă biografică
April D. DeConick, Ph.D. (1994, University of Michigan), is the Isla Carroll and Percy E. Turner Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Rice University. She has published extensively on early Christianity, esotericism, mysticism, and Gnosticism, including The Gnostic New Age: How a Countercultural Spirituality Revolutionized Religion from Antiquity to Today (Columbia University Press, 2016).
Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta, Ph.D. (1997, University Complutense; 2004, University of Groningen) is Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of Groningen. He is the author of numerous studies on Greco-Roman Philosophy; Early Christianity, Early Christian Apocrypha, Gnosticism, and Plutarch of Chaeronea.
Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta, Ph.D. (1997, University Complutense; 2004, University of Groningen) is Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of Groningen. He is the author of numerous studies on Greco-Roman Philosophy; Early Christianity, Early Christian Apocrypha, Gnosticism, and Plutarch of Chaeronea.
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Contents
Introduction
The Countercultural Gnostic: Turning the World Upside Down and Inside Out
April D. DeConick
“I Turned away from the Temple”: Sethian Counterculture in the Apocryphon of John
Grant Adamson
Transgressing Boundaries: Plotinus and the Gnostics
John D. Turner
Forbidden Knowledge: Cognitive Transgression and “Ascent Above Intellect” in the Debate Between Plotinus and the Gnostics
Zeke Mazur
The Apocalypse of Paul (NHC V,2): Cosmology, Anthropology, and Ethics
Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta
Gnosis Undomesticated: Archon-Seduction, Demon Sex, and Sodomites in the Paraphrase of Shem (NHC VII,1)
Dylan M. Burns
Gnostic Self-Deification: The Case of Simon of Samaria
M. David Litwa
Demon est Deus Inversus: Honoring the Daemonic in Iamblichean Theurgy
Gregory Shaw
The Coming of the Star-Child: The Reception of the Revelation of the Magi in New Age Religious Thought and Ufology
Brent Landau
The Great God Pan
Sarah Iles Johnston
Alan Moore’s Promethea: Countercultural Gnosis and the End of the World
Wouter J. Hanegraaff
Children of the Light: Gnostic Fiction and Gnostic Practice in Vladimir Sorokin’s Ice Trilogy
Victoria Nelson
Symbolic Loss, Memory, and Modernization in the Reception of Gnosticism
Matthew J. Dillon
Gnostic and Countercultural Elements in Zora Neale Hurston’s “Hoodoo in America”
Margarita Simon Guillory
Index 317
Introduction
Part 1: Antiquity
The Countercultural Gnostic: Turning the World Upside Down and Inside Out
April D. DeConick
“I Turned away from the Temple”: Sethian Counterculture in the Apocryphon of John
Grant Adamson
Transgressing Boundaries: Plotinus and the Gnostics
John D. Turner
Forbidden Knowledge: Cognitive Transgression and “Ascent Above Intellect” in the Debate Between Plotinus and the Gnostics
Zeke Mazur
The Apocalypse of Paul (NHC V,2): Cosmology, Anthropology, and Ethics
Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta
Gnosis Undomesticated: Archon-Seduction, Demon Sex, and Sodomites in the Paraphrase of Shem (NHC VII,1)
Dylan M. Burns
Gnostic Self-Deification: The Case of Simon of Samaria
M. David Litwa
Demon est Deus Inversus: Honoring the Daemonic in Iamblichean Theurgy
Gregory Shaw
The Coming of the Star-Child: The Reception of the Revelation of the Magi in New Age Religious Thought and Ufology
Brent Landau
Part 2: Modernity
The Great God Pan
Sarah Iles Johnston
Alan Moore’s Promethea: Countercultural Gnosis and the End of the World
Wouter J. Hanegraaff
Children of the Light: Gnostic Fiction and Gnostic Practice in Vladimir Sorokin’s Ice Trilogy
Victoria Nelson
Symbolic Loss, Memory, and Modernization in the Reception of Gnosticism
Matthew J. Dillon
Gnostic and Countercultural Elements in Zora Neale Hurston’s “Hoodoo in America”
Margarita Simon Guillory
Index 317