Cosmology and fate in Gnosticism and Graeco-Roman antiquity under pitiless skies - Lewis, Nicola Denzey, 1966- (Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013)
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.
Title from PDF title page (viewed on May 14, 2013).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Gnosticism; Cosmology; Fate and fatalism; RELIGION / Gnosticism; Electronic books