TY - BOOK AU - Lewis,Nicola Denzey TI - Cosmology and fate in Gnosticism and Graeco-Roman antiquity: under pitiless skies T2 - Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies, SN - 9789004245761 (electronic bk.) AV - BT1390 U1 - 299/.932 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill KW - Gnosticism KW - Cosmology KW - Fate and fatalism KW - RELIGION / Gnosticism KW - bisacsh KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 UR - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=569839 ER -