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Bakhar, Spiridon A. "THE “MYSTERY OF REDEMPTION” IN GNOSTIC CHRISTIANITY." Научное мнение, no. 12 (December 25, 2023): 28–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.25807/22224378_2023_12_28.

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The article is intended to fill the gap existing today in the study of Gnosticism. Using the available sources and other relevant literature, the author of the article makes an attempt for the first time to reconstruct the religious and philosophical views of Gnostic authors on the idea of redemption. The significance of this idea in the teachings of Gnostics is shown, its specificity is determined. The ideas of redemption are analysed and systematised in the context of ontological, epistemological and anthropological aspects of Gnosticism. Their prerequisites are revealed. A comparison is mad
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Perkins, Pheme. "Book Review: Ancient Gnosticism: Traditions and Literature." Theological Studies 69, no. 2 (2008): 458–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/004056390806900227.

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Majercik, Ruth. "Porphyry and Gnosticism." Classical Quarterly 55, no. 1 (2005): 277–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cq/bmi020.

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Brown, D. "HD'S TRILOGY: MODERN GNOSTICISM?" Literature and Theology 10, no. 4 (1996): 351–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/litthe/10.4.351.

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Tally, Justine. "The Gnosis of Toni Morrison: Morrison’s Conversation with Herman Melville, with a Nod to Umberto Eco." Contemporary Women's Writing 13, no. 3 (2019): 357–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpaa011.

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Abstract Long before Toni Morrison was extensively recognized as a serious contender in the “Global Market of Intellectuals,” she was obviously reading and absorbing challenging critical work that was considered “provocative and controversial” by the keepers of the US academic community at the time. While no one disputes the influence of Elaine Pagels’ work on Gnosticism at the University of Princeton, particularly its importance for Jazz and Paradise, the second and third novels of the Morrison trilogy, Gnosticism in Beloved has not been so carefully considered. Yet this keen interest in Gnos
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Dobkowski, Mariusz. "„Uważam się za heretyka i za gnostyka, i szczycę się, że nim jestem”. Jerzego Prokopiuka ezoteryczna recepcja gnozy i gnostycyzmu." Studia Religiologica 54, no. 3 (2021): 269–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/20844077sr.21.017.16554.

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“I Consider Myself a Heretic and a Gnostic, and I Pride Myself on Being One.” Jerzy Prokopiuk’s Esoteric Reception of Gnosis and Gnosticism In the paper, the author presents Jerzy Prokopiuk’s (1931–2021) outlook on gnosis and Gnosticism. Prokopiuk was a Polish esotericist, translator, and non-academic specialist in religious studies. His views on this subject can be divided into four areas: (1) definition of gnosis; (2) the essence and de- scription of Gnosticism as a historical religious formation; (3) description and understanding of the post-Gnostic tradition; (4) gnosis and Gnosticism as a
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Desjardins, Michel. "Rethinking the Study of Gnosticism." Religion and Theology 12, no. 3-4 (2005): 370–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157430106776241169.

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AbstractPointing to parallels in the study of Jesus traditions and Pauline literature, but focusing explicitly on Gnosticism, it is argued that the Gestalt of ancient religions are often the result of ideological projections into the texts and the assumed religious traditions standing behind them by modern scholars. Dealing more appropriately with such a problematic phenomenon as Gnosticism, would entail reconsidering the conceptual categories employed in the description and interpretation of the phenomenon, as well as an object lesson in scholarly humility to avoid the hybris of colonising an
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Parrott, Douglas M. "Gnosticism and Egyptian Religion by." Novum Testamentum 29, no. 1 (1987): 73–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853687x00191.

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AbstractDespite the fact that Egypt has provided the most abundant sources for the study of Gnosticism and the occasional mention of Egypt and things Egyptian in those sources, scholars have neglected Egyptian religion as a significant influence in the origin and development of Gnosticism. An examination of the early Nag Hammadi tractate Eugnostos makes it possible to see that it was significantly affected by Egyptian religious conceptions of the Urzeit. The evidence of the influence of Eugnostos upon subsequent gnostic systems suggests that it was at least one route by which Egyptian religion
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Meconi, David. "Ancient Gnosticism: Traditions and Literature. By Birger A. Pearson." Heythrop Journal 50, no. 4 (2009): 700–701. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2265.2009.00501_4.x.

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Edwards, M. J. "Ancient Gnosticism: Traditions and Literature. By BIRGER A. PEARSON." Journal of Theological Studies 59, no. 2 (2008): 772–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jts/fln074.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Gnosticism in literature"

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Geyer, Christopher Scott. "Is Thomas gnostic? a comparison of doctrines in the Gospel of Thomas to early gnosticism /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2007. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p001-1183.

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Donovan, Josephine. "Gnosticism in modern literature : a study of the selected works of Camus, Sartre, Hesse, and Kafka /." New York : Garland publ, 1990. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb355205194.

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Thorpe, Brian. "Discerning the contemporary gnostic spirit in the novels of Robertson Davies." Thesis, McGill University, 1989. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=75993.

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This dissertation is intended to demonstrate the presence of a contemporary gnostic spirit in the novels of Robertson Davies.<br>The dominance of Protestant puritanism in English Canadian culture is a frequent theme in the literature of the nation. In his writing, Robertson Davies counters the repressive dynamics of a society shaped by puritanism with an appeal to an alternate vision. This vision, which places greater value on self-knowledge, bears a strong affinity to the precepts of the ancient gnostics.<br>Davies' critique of an English Canadian context which appears to place higher value o
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Kaiser, Ursula Ulrike. "Die Hypostase der Archonten : (Nag-Hammadi-Codex II,4) /." Berlin [u.a.] : de Gruyter, 2006. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2824265&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.

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Priori, Marcio Luiz. "Os cristãos, de ontem e de hoje, ante a tentação de se acomodarem ao mundo: uma abordagem a partir de Ap 2-3." Faculdades EST, 2011. http://tede.est.edu.br/tede/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=344.

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Este estudo trata sobre os cristãos, de ontem e de hoje, ante a tentação de se acomodarem ao mundo. Ele toma como ponto de apoio o Ap 2-3. Na primeira parte, a pesquisa estabelece um paralelo entre o Apocalipse de São João, a Apocalíptica judaica e o movimento profético que precedeu o movimento apocalíptico, em Israel. Embora aproximem-se mais da literatura profética, devido ao otimismo demonstrado com relação à história presente, as cartas dirigidas às Igrejas da Ásia Menor, segundo Ap 2-3, são marcadas por uma linguagem simbólica associada a momentos de crise, uma vez que o contexto dessas I
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Kato, Mikiko. "Raymond Queneau et les mythologies." Phd thesis, Université de la Sorbonne nouvelle - Paris III, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00915900.

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Raymond Queneau s'intéresse au mythe, comme bien d'autres écrivains. Mais quel est le rapport qu'il entretient avec cet imaginaire collectif ? Notre propos est d'examiner la particularité des idées de Queneau sur le mythe, dans tous les sens du terme. Il est question d'abord d'observer ce que signifie le " mythe " pour Queneau, en considérant comment ses relations avec les surréalistes et Georges Bataille l'ont sensibilisé aux sciences humaines et sociales en vogue au début du XXe siècle, et en étudiant sa lecture de Nietzsche et Joyce qui réfléchissent sur le mythe et la littérature. La réécr
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Lombardo, Alexander. "Leonard Cohen's New Jews: a Consideration of Western Mysticisms in Beautiful Losers." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1539.

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This study examines the influence of various Western mystical traditions on Leonard Cohen’s second novel, Beautiful Losers. It begins with a discussion of Cohen’s public remarks concerning religion and mysticism followed by an assessment of twentieth century Canadian criticism on Beautiful Losers. Three thematic chapters comprise the majority of the study, each concerning a different mystical tradition—Kabbalism, Gnosticism, and Christian mysticism, respectively. The author considers Beautiful Losers in relation to these systems, concluding that the novel effectively depicts the pursuit of God
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Brassaw, Mandolin R. "Divine heresy : women's revisions of sacred texts /." Thesis, Connect to title online (Scholars' Bank) Connect to title online (ProQuest), 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/9153.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2008.<br>Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 219-226). Also available online in Scholars' Bank; and in ProQuest, free to University of Oregon users.
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Casanova, Nora Celina. "Hell, Heaven and Alchemy in Hawthorne’s “Scarlet Letter" according to Gnosticism." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, 2013. http://bdigital.uncu.edu.ar/5148.

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According to Gnosticism, the original sin which prompted man to be expelled from Heaven was the sin against the Holy Spirit. This offence would be strictly connected to sexuality, consisting mainly on fornication and adultery. The disobedient behavior towards the Lord’s Laws, then, made God banish sinners to a place where they should suffer until they could be redeemed by their own good deeds and saintly conduct. In The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the main characters have to suffer the consequences of their sin and struggle against their own nature to achieve redemption and be puri
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Embry, Jason Michael. ""Nam-Shub versus the Big Other: Revising the Language that Binds Us in Philip K. Dick, Neal Stephenson, Samuel R. Delany, and Chuck Palahniuk"." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2009. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_diss/46.

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Within the science fiction genre, utopian as well as dystopian experiments have found equal representation. This balanced treatment of two diametrically opposed social constructs results from a focus on the future for which this particular genre is well known. Philip K. Dick’s VALIS, Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash, Samuel R. Delany’s Babel-17, and Chuck Palahniuk’s Lullaby, more aptly characterized as speculative fiction because of its use of magic against scientific social subjugation, each tackle dystopian qualities of contemporary society by analyzing the power that language possesses in the
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Books on the topic "Gnosticism in literature"

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Reconstructing the tradition of Sophia in Gnostic literature. Scholars Press, 1987.

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Versluis, Arthur. Gnosis and literature. Grail, 1996.

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Eylon, Dina Ripsman. Reincarnation in Jewish mysticism and gnosticism. Edwin Mellen Press, 2003.

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W, Attridge Harold, Hedrick Charles W, Hodgson Robert 1943-, and Working Seminar on Gnosticism and Early Christianity (1983 : Springfield, Mo.), eds. Nag Hammadi, gnosticism & early Christianity. Hendrickson Publishers, 1986.

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Lanza, Adriano. Dante e la gnosi: Esoterismo del "Convivio". Edizioni mediterranee, 1990.

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Heintz, Joachim. Gnosis: Literarische Splitter zur Erkenntnis. Verlag Clemens Zerling, 1998.

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Évangiles Gnostiques: Dans le corpus de Berlin et dans la Bibliothèque Copte de Nag Hammadi. Centre d'Histoire des Religions, 1991.

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Gagliardi, Antonio. La tragedia intellettuale di Dante: Il Convivio. Pullano, 1994.

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Lanza, Adriano. Dante all'inferno. Tre editori, 1999.

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Brox, Norbert. Erleuchtung und Wiedergeburt: Aktualität der Gnosis. Kösel, 1989.

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Book chapters on the topic "Gnosticism in literature"

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Elias, Natanela. "Introduction: Gnosticism and Late-Medieval Literature." In The Gnostic Paradigm. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137465382_1.

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Sinnige, Th G. "The Soul’s Return to her Origin in Alexandrian Literature." In Six Lectures on Plotinus and Gnosticism. Springer Netherlands, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3006-8_4.

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"The Johannine Literature And Gnosticism." In From Judaism to Christianity: Tradition and Transition. BRILL, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004187696.i-336.74.

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Versluis, Arthur. "Neo-Gnosticism in American Literature." In American Gnosis. Oxford University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197653210.003.0003.

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Abstract Many nineteenth-century American authors such as Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville held neo-gnostic affinities, according to scholarship, and many twentieth- and twenty-first century American authors have also been interpreted as neo-gnostic. There are many neo-gnostic elements in contemporary fiction and poetry, for instance, in the works of Robinson Jeffers and science fiction works by authors including Philip K. Dick and William Gibson, as well as Thomas Pynchon and Cormac McCarthy. Horror fiction, through authors including H. P. Lovecraft and Thomas Ligotti, can be seen in a neo-gnostic context. Neo-gnosticism emerges in contemporary fiction as a set of intellectual “bricks” including concepts like hostile society, archons, and so forth.
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Calonne, David Stephen. "Spirituality and Religious Traditions in Beat Literature." In The Beats. Liverpool University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781949979954.003.0005.

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This essay explicates a Beat fascination with esoteric religious traditions, including astrology, alchemy, and Gnosticism, illuminating heterodoxies characterizing countercultural minorities from antiquity to the present and shaping the Beat imagination. Calonne presents detailed readings of the poetry of Gregory Corso, Diane di Prima, and Michael McClure
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Versluis, Arthur. "Awakening: An Introduction." In American Gnosis. Oxford University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197653210.003.0001.

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Abstract The introduction provides an argument for the book’s integrative approach. It summarizes the book’s evidence from film, literature, new religions, politics, social media, and other sources in order to develop a fuller understanding not only of the recent and contemporary significances of neo-gnosticism and gnosis, and discusses how neo-gnosticism fits within and reflects larger religious history, context, and current in all of the Americas, and, necessarily, global context as well. It discusses the author’s inductive approach as well as the subject of political religion. Other topics include political gnosis and antignosticism, with exemplary references to the film They Live and to the perspective of a contemporary lightworker.
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Burns, Dylan M. "Is Sethian Gnosticism an Abrahamic Religion? Abraham, Sodom, and the Parabiblical in Ancient Gnostic Literature." In All Religion Is Inter-Religion. Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350062245.ch-013.

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Ables, Travis E. "The Way of Darkness and the Way of Light: The Cross as Boundary Marker in Early Christianity." In The Body of the Cross. Fordham University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823297993.003.0002.

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This chapter examines the symbol of the cross in second- and third-century texts, engaging heresiological literature to argue that the cross was a polemical symbol with little reference to atonement concerns in this era. It argues that the cross was instead a boundary marker of social differentiation. It marked out the emerging mainstream church from two groups: Judaism and gnosticism. Early Christian writers adopted apocalyptic language to reinforce the distinctiveness of protoorthodox Christian identity. Combined with apotropaic elements in early liturgical traditions, this language of darkness and light demonized Christianity’s polemical opponents. Major interlocutors include the Epistle of Barnabas, Justin Martyr, the Apostolic Tradition, the Gospel of Philip, and Irenaeus of Lyons.
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Burns, Dylan M. "Gnostic." In A Guide to Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190863074.003.0023.

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The corpus of extant Gnostic literature, preserved almost exclusively in Coptic codices of the ca. fourth–sixth centuries CE, constitutes an invaluable witness for the transmission of Second Temple Jewish traditions in late antiquity. The most famous of these concern the hypostasis Sophia (“Wisdom”) and the dual creation of Adam (Gen 2–3). Other important traditions found throughout Coptic Gnostic literature deal with Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, divine “youths” (Metatron?), the Fall of the Watchers, Noah and the Flood, Seth’s sister and wife Norea and the Sibyl, Melchizedek, and Solomon. Sodom and Gomorrah pop up in famous cases of Gnostic “reverse exegesis,” where the Sodomites are valorized. Traditions of the apocalypses, such as heavenly journeys and the glorification and transformation of human seers, are also of paramount importance to Gnostic literature. More “philosophically-inclined” currents related to Gnosticism, such as Valentinianism and Hermetism, transmit many Jewish traditions as well. Gnostic literature thus constitutes a source of deep value not only for the importance of Jewish traditions for the formation of Christian and Gnostic thought, but also for the transmission of apocalyptic and mystical ideas during a period for which our “Jewish sources” are relatively scarce.
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Louth, Andrew. "Pseudonymity and Secret Tradition in Early Christianity." In Selected Essays, Volume II. Oxford University PressOxford, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192882820.003.0029.

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Abstract Pseudonymity has a bad name in scholarship, associated, if not actually identified, with forgery. Such an approach is anachronistic, as is argued with reference to the case of Dionysios the Areopagite. The use of pseudonymity is much earlier than that, and flourished in the second century, in so-called apocryphal literature, with which ‘gnosticism’ is often associated. The term ‘gnostic’ is itself maligned and its commonest Christian use for one who enters more deeply into Christian experience ignored. These considerations enable one to make sense of the second-century Protevangelium of James, a prequel to the canonical Gospels, a text freighted with veiled symbolic significance, which sees Mary as a living Temple, in which God dwelt, and the birth of her child as God with us, as a turning point in the created order, a point at which creation stood still.
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