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100 1 _aLewis, Nicola Denzey,
_d1966-
245 1 0 _aCosmology and fate in Gnosticism and Graeco-Roman antiquity :
_bunder pitiless skies /
_cby Nicola Denzey Lewis.
264 1 _aLeiden ;
_aBoston :
_bBrill,
_c2013.
300 _a1 online resource (xiii, 206 pages)
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aNag Hammadi and Manichaean studies,
_x0929-2470 ;
_vv. 81
500 _aTitle from PDF title page (viewed on May 14, 2013).
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 0 _tFront Matter /
_rNicola Denzey Lewis --
_tIntroduction /
_rNicola Denzey Lewis --
_tWere the Gnostics Cosmic Pessimists? /
_rNicola Denzey Lewis --
_tNag Hammadi and the Providential Cosmos /
_rNicola Denzey Lewis --
_t‘This Body of Death’: Cosmic Malevolence and Enslavement to Sin in Pauline Exegesis /
_rNicola Denzey Lewis --
_tHeimarmene at Nag Hammadi: The Apocryphon of John and On the Origin of the World /
_rNicola Denzey Lewis --
_tMiddle Platonism, Heimarmene, and the Corpus Hermeticum /
_rNicola Denzey Lewis --
_tWays Out I: Interventions of the Savior God /
_rNicola Denzey Lewis --
_tWays Out II: Baptism and Cosmic Freedom: A New Genesis /
_rNicola Denzey Lewis --
_tAstral ‘Determinism’ in the Gospel of Judas /
_rNicola Denzey Lewis --
_tConclusions, and a New Way Forward /
_rNicola Denzey Lewis --
_tSelected Bibliography /
_rNicola Denzey Lewis --
_tSubject Index /
_rNicola Denzey Lewis.
506 _aAvailable to subscribing member institutions only.
520 _aIn 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.
650 0 _aGnosticism.
650 0 _aCosmology.
650 0 _aFate and fatalism.
650 7 _aRELIGION / Gnosticism
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776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9781299476400
830 0 _aNag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies
_v81.
830 0 _aBiblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2013, ISBN: 9789004248649.
856 4 _zDOI:
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004245761
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