Gnosis: The Nature and History of GnosticismA&C Black, 2001 M06 20 - 412 pages Presents a readable and appealing introduction to what otherwise might seem an inaccessible religion of late antiquity. |
Contents
THE SOURCES | 9 |
The Older Sources | 25 |
NATURE AND STRUCTURE | 53 |
Cosmology and Cosmogony | 67 |
Anthropology and Anthropogony | 88 |
The Doctrine of Redemption and the Redeemer | 113 |
The Ascent of the Soul and the End of the World | 171 |
Community Cult and Social Practice Ethics | 204 |
Early Schools and Systems | 294 |
The Great Systems of the 2nd Century | 308 |
Manicheism | 326 |
The Mandeans | 343 |
EPILOGUE | 367 |
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HISTORY | 275 |
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