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Cosmology and Fate in Gnosticism and Graeco-Roman Antiquity: Under Pitiless Skies (Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies)

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 | #5735965 in Books |  BRILL |  2013-03-28 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.61 x.69 x6.29l,1.04 | File type: PDF | 220 pages

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||4 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| You are ignorant slaves of fate; we have been released from fate|By Michael Hoffman|I had my university library order this book in hardcover and electronic form.

People in Mediterranean antiquity including Jews, Pagans, Gnostics, and Christians, around the 1st Century, believed in fatedness. Then around the 2nd Century, people adopted a rhetoric of transcending fate| |'"...concise and convincing, ... the book is clearly-argued [...]. Its critical engagement with the research of the old school dispels scholarly myths and provides a new starting point for debate about how we are to understand the problems of fate, providence,

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 ...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Cosmology and Fate in Gnosticism and Graeco-Roman Antiquity: Under Pitiless Skies (Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies)   |  Nicola Denzey Lewis. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.

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