You Are Gods: Deification in the Naassene Writer and Clement of Alexandria
Currently there is no widespread agreement on what constitutes gnosis or the gnostic identity in the ancient world. The best option, it seems, is to offer a polythetic classification wherein gnostic thinkers or groups possess a range of characteristics without any one group or thinker possessing all...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2017]
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Harvard theological review
Year: 2017, Volume: 110, Issue: 1, Pages: 125-148 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Clemens, Alexandrinus ca. 150-215
/ Ophites
/ Bible. Psalmen 82,6
/ Deification
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RelBib Classification: | BF Gnosticism HB Old Testament KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity NBK Soteriology |
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Summary: | Currently there is no widespread agreement on what constitutes gnosis or the gnostic identity in the ancient world. The best option, it seems, is to offer a polythetic classification wherein gnostic thinkers or groups possess a range of characteristics without any one group or thinker possessing all of them. Yet even if widespread agreement on a set of characteristics were attained, it still would not explain how gnostic groups emerged, developed, and crafted their own specific identities. |
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ISSN: | 1475-4517 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Harvard theological review
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0017816016000419 |