02084nam a2200469Ia 4500 ocn842961828 OCoLC 20200709055814.0 m d cr cnu---unuuu 130514s2013 nl ob 001 0 eng d N$T N$T 9789004245761 (electronic bk.) 9004245766 (electronic bk.) (OCoLC)842961828 569839 (N$T) BT1390 REL 112000 bisacsh 299/.932 23 N$TA Lewis, Nicola Denzey, 1966- Cosmology and fate in Gnosticism and Graeco-Roman antiquity [electronic resource] : under pitiless skies / by Nicola Denzey Lewis. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013. 1 online resource (xiii, 206 pages) text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies, 0929-2470 ; v. 81 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. Gnosticism. Cosmology. Fate and fatalism. RELIGION / Gnosticism bisacsh Electronic books. Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies ; 81. EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=569839 EBSCOhost EBSC 569839 cpp3574 02 N$T 53037 53037