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Cosmology and fate in Gnosticism and Graeco-Roman antiquity [electronic resource] : under pitiless skies / by Nicola Denzey Lewis.

By: Series: Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies ; v. 81 | Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies ; 81.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 206 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9789004245761 (electronic bk.)
  • 9004245766 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 299/.932 23
LOC classification:
  • BT1390
Online resources:
Contents:
Were the gnostics cosmic pessimists? -- Nag Hammadi and the providential cosmos -- This body of death : cosmic malevolence and enslavement to sin in Pauline exegesis -- Heimarmene at Nag Hammadi : the Apocryphon of John and On the origin of the world -- Middle platonism, heimarmene, and the Corpus hermeticum -- Ways out I : interventions of the savior god -- Ways out II : baptism and cosmic freedom : a new genesis -- Astral determinism in the Gospel of Judas -- Conclusions, and a new way forward.
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Title from PDF title page (viewed on May 14, 2013).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Were the gnostics cosmic pessimists? -- Nag Hammadi and the providential cosmos -- This body of death : cosmic malevolence and enslavement to sin in Pauline exegesis -- Heimarmene at Nag Hammadi : the Apocryphon of John and On the origin of the world -- Middle platonism, heimarmene, and the Corpus hermeticum -- Ways out I : interventions of the savior god -- Ways out II : baptism and cosmic freedom : a new genesis -- Astral determinism in the Gospel of Judas -- Conclusions, and a new way forward.

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