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1.
The Johannine Corpus in the Early Church
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Publisher:
Oxford University Press 2004
Subjects:
Bible. N.T. John--Criticism, Interpretation, Etc.--History--Early Church, CA. 30-600
Church History--2Nd Century
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...11 Ibid. 86 (his treatment of the gnostics covers pp. 47-66, almost a third...as much space as his treatment of the Gnostics. 15 Ibid. 84. Despite the tone of...Ibid. 192, 'Was it mainly adopted by Gnostics to start with and made to serve their...
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Rethinking "Gnosticism": An Argument for Dismantling a Dubious Category
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Publisher:
Princeton University Press 1996
Subjects:
Gnosticism
Rome--Religion
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...the “empty talk of the perverse gnostics,showing them to be disciples of Simon...201C… the multitude of those gnostics (gnosticorum) whoderive...Basilides, and against the remaining gnostics (reliquosgnosticos), from...
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The Allure of Gnosticism: The Gnostic Experience in Jungian Psychology and Contemporary Culture
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Publisher:
Open Court 1995
Subjects:
Jungian Psychology
Psychoanalysis And Religion
Gnosticism--Psychology
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...unconscious to reveal itself.The response of Gnostics to the revelation parallels that ofcontemporaries...unknown dimension of oneself and, for Gnostics, of aheretofore unknown world provides...1931, p. 84).The response of non-Gnostics to the revelation parallels that ofmoderns...
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After the Apostles: Christianity in the Second Century
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Publisher:
Fortress Press 1994
Subjects:
Church History--Primitive and Early Church, Ca. 30-600
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...The first, a small minority,were the Gnostics or [spirituals] (pneumatikoi). Unknown...may be compared to a receiving set. Gnostics were by nature tuned tohear the pleromatic...wisdom and were initiatedby more advanced Gnostics into higher degrees of gnōsis...
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The Early Christian World - Vol. 2
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Publisher:
Routledge 2000
Subjects:
Church History--Early Church, Ca. 30-600
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...identify groups who called themselves 'gnostics/ gnostikoi' in his additions to the...154 CE on), 'they call themelves gnostics' (Adv. haer. 1.25.6). And at...two mythological systems of a 'mass of gnostics' (multitudo Gnosticorum) whom he claims...
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Christianity and Its Judaic Heritage: An Introduction with Selected Sources
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Publisher:
Ronald Press 1961
Subjects:
Church History
Christianity And Other Religions--Judaism
Judaism--History
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...Chris­tian thinkers attacked the Gnostics sharply because they sawthat the adoption...Christian Gnosticismare listed. First, the Gnostics were dualistic, drawing a sharpdistinction...spiritual supremacyof the Creator God, the Gnostics necessarily repudiated alsothe authority...
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What Is Gnosticism?
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Publisher:
Belknap Press 2003
Subjects:
Gnosticism
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...continues: [Itis possible that a number of gnostics did not intend to stand out by their...their rise had. The objection to the Gnostics thus re­lated on the one hand...169). He then goes on to contrast Gnostics withthe Church: [Over against these...
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The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge - Vol. 4
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Publisher:
Funk and Wagnalls Company 1909
Subjects:
Theology--Encyclopedias
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...use the right remedies.[The Gnostics may be divided into: the JudaizingGnostics; the Anti-Judaistic Gnostics; the Gnos­ticizing pagans...0028Valentinus). Then,too, the Gnostics had their theological literature...
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The Early Christian World - Vol. 1
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Publisher:
Routledge 2000
Subjects:
Church History--Early Church, Ca. 30-600
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...in the late Hellenistic period.Some gnostics in third-century Rome, in fact, associated...Plotinus wrote a treatise Against the Gnostics attempting to distinguish his teachings...0028Enneads 2.19). Whereas the gnostics rejected this material world and, consequently...
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