The Gnostic New Age: How a Countercultural Spirituality Revolutionized Religion from Antiquity to Today
Gnosticism is a heretical tradition that revolutionized the practice of Christianity. Before Gnosticism emerged in the second century, passage to the afterlife required obedience to God and king. Gnosticism proposed that human beings were manifestations of the divine, unsettling the hierarchical fou...
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2016
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| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: DeConick, April D: The Gnostic New Age : How a Countercultural Spirituality Revolutionized Religion from Antiquity to Today. - La Vergne : Columbia University Press,c2016. - 9780231170765 |
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| 520 | |a Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Matrix of Ancient Spirituality -- 2. The Gnostic True Man -- 3. Superpowers and Monsters -- 4. Paul and Gnostic Dogma -- 5. John and the Dark Cosmos -- 6. Gnostic Altered States -- 7. Hell Walks and Star Treks -- 8. Spiritual Avatars -- 9. The Pi of Politics -- 10. Pleasantville Religions -- 11. Gnosticism Out on a Limb -- Bibliography -- English Translations of Gnostic Sources -- Filmography -- Index | ||
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