TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lewis,Nicola Denzey
TI  - Cosmology and fate in Gnosticism and Graeco-Roman antiquity: under pitiless skies 
T2  - Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies,
SN  - 9789004245761
AV  - BT1390 .L49 2013
U1  - 299/.932 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Gnosticism
KW  - Cosmology
KW  - Fate and fatalism
KW  - RELIGION / Gnosticism
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Title from PDF title page (viewed on May 14, 2013); Includes bibliographical references and index; 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; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004245761
ER  -