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Rethinking "Gnosticism"
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ISBN: 0691005427 0691011273 1400822211 1282753193 9786612753190 1400813832 9781400822218 1400808537 9780691011271 Year: 1999 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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Most anyone interested in such topics as creation mythology, Jungian theory, or the idea of "secret teachings" in ancient Judaism and Christianity has found "gnosticism" compelling. Yet the term "gnosticism," which often connotes a single rebellious movement against the prevailing religions of late antiquity, gives the false impression of a monolithic religious phenomenon. Here Michael Williams challenges the validity of the widely invoked category of ancient "gnosticism" and the ways it has been described. Presenting such famous writings and movements as the Apocryphon of John and Valentinian Christianity, Williams uncovers the similarities and differences among some major traditions widely categorized as gnostic. He provides an eloquent, systematic argument for a more accurate way to discuss these interpretive approaches. The modern construct "gnosticism" is not justified by any ancient self-definition, and many of the most commonly cited religious features that supposedly define gnosticism phenomenologically turn out to be questionable. Exploring the sample sets of "gnostic" teachings, Williams refutes generalizations concerning asceticism and libertinism, attitudes toward the body and the created world, and alleged features of protest, parasitism, and elitism. He sketches a fresh model for understanding ancient innovations on more "mainstream" Judaism and Christianity, a model that is informed by modern research on dynamics in new religious movements and is freed from the false stereotypes from which the category "gnosticism" has been constructed.

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Gnosticism. --- Rome --- Religion. --- Gnosticism --- 273.1 --- 273.1 Gnosis. Gnosticisme --- Gnosis. Gnosticisme --- Religion --- Cults --- Rome - Religion --- Against the Galilaeans. --- Agrippa Castor. --- Anchorite. --- Anthropomorphism. --- Anti-Judaism. --- Antinomianism. --- Antipope. --- Apocalypse. --- Apocrypha. --- Apocryphon. --- Apostasy. --- Asceticism. --- Blasphemy. --- Borborites. --- Cainites. --- Catharism. --- Celibacy. --- Cerdo (gnostic). --- Cerinthus. --- Christian Identity. --- Christian fundamentalism. --- Christianity. --- Church Fathers. --- Clement of Alexandria. --- Consubstantiality. --- Contra Celsum. --- Creation myth. --- Demiurge. --- Demonization. --- Dialogue with Trypho. --- Divine Spark. --- Doctrine. --- Elohim. --- Epiphanes (gnostic). --- Epistle to the Laodiceans. --- Ernst Troeltsch. --- Exegesis. --- Exorcism. --- False prophet. --- God. --- Good and evil. --- Gospel of Eve. --- Gospel of Philip. --- Heresy of the Free Spirit. --- Heresy. --- Heterodoxy. --- Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit. --- Ideal type. --- Incorruptibility. --- Infidel. --- Irenaeus. --- Jews. --- Judaism. --- Judas Iscariot. --- Justification (theology). --- Justin Martyr. --- Manichaeism. --- Marcion of Sinope. --- Marcionism. --- Martyr. --- Metempsychosis. --- New religious movement. --- Nicolaism. --- Orthodox Judaism. --- Plotinus. --- Predestination. --- Problem of evil. --- Pseudo-Philo. --- Puritans. --- Pythagoreanism. --- Reform Judaism. --- Religious text. --- Renunciation. --- Sacred prostitution. --- Satan. --- Sect. --- Secularization. --- Self-denial. --- Sethianism. --- Sexual Desire (book). --- Sexual abstinence. --- Simon Magus. --- Skepticism. --- Sophia (Gnosticism). --- Spiritual marriage. --- Spirituality. --- Superiority (short story). --- Tertullian. --- The Other Hand. --- Theodicy. --- Theodotus of Byzantium. --- Theology. --- Thou shalt not commit adultery. --- Thou shalt not covet. --- Tractate. --- Wickedness. --- Writing. --- Zostrianos.


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The Origenist controversy : the cultural construction of an early christian debate
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ISBN: 0691031738 1306985366 0691603510 1400863112 9780691031736 Year: 1992 Publisher: Princeton (N.J.): Princeton university press

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Around the turn of the fifth century, Christian theologians and churchmen contested each other's orthodoxy and good repute by hurling charges of "Origenism" at their opponents. And although orthodoxy was more narrowly defined by that era than during Origen's lifetime in the third century, his speculative, Platonizing theology was not the only issue at stake in the Origenist controversy: "Origen" became a code word for nontheological complaints as well. Elizabeth Clark explores the theological and extra-theological implications of the dispute, uses social network analysis to explain the personal alliances and enmities of its participants, and suggests how it prefigured modern concerns with the status of representation, the social construction of the body, and praxis vis--vis theory. Shaped by the Trinitarian and ascetic debates, and later to influence clashes between Augustine and the Pelagians, the Origenist controversy intersected with patristic campaigns against pagan "idolatry" and Manichean and astrological determinism. Discussing Evagrius Ponticus, Epiphanius, Theophilus, Jerome, Shenute, and Rufinus in turn, Clark concludes by showing how Augustine's theory of original sin reconstructed the Origenist theory of the soul's pre-existence and "fall" into the body.Originally published in 1992.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Church history --- Anthropomorphism --- Theodicy --- Fathers of the church --- Church controversies --- History of doctrines --- Origen --- Influence --- Christian heresies --- Christian sociology --- #GOSA:II.P.AU.1 --- #GOSA:II.P.AU.3 --- #GOSA:II.P.ORI.M --- 219 --- 276 =75 ORIGENES --- History --- Analogieën. Antropomorfisme (theodicee) --- Griekse patrologie--ORIGENES --- Origin. --- Church history - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 --- Anthropomorphism - History of doctrines - Early church, ca. 30-600 --- Theodicy - History of doctrines - Early church, ca. 30-600 --- Origen - Influence --- Ambrosiaster. --- Anathema. --- Anchorite. --- Apologetics. --- Apologeticus. --- Apostasy. --- Arian controversy. --- Arianism. --- Arius. --- Asceticism. --- Backsliding. --- Basil of Caesarea. --- Blasphemy. --- Book of Judges. --- Books of Kings. --- Caelestius. --- Celibacy. --- Church Fathers. --- Consubstantiality. --- Council of Ephesus. --- Criticism of Christianity. --- Damnatio memoriae. --- Damnation. --- De fide. --- Dogma. --- Donatism. --- Ecclesiastical jurisdiction. --- Elijah. --- Epistle to the Ephesians. --- Evagrius Ponticus. --- Excommunication. --- Exegesis. --- Exorcism. --- Ezekiel. --- Fall of man. --- False prophet. --- Fear of God. --- Gluttony. --- God. --- Golden calf. --- Good and evil. --- Heresiarch. --- Heresy. --- Heterodoxy. --- Homoiousian. --- Iconoclasm. --- Idolatry. --- Image of God. --- Jacob and Esau. --- John Chrysostom. --- John of Jerusalem. --- Jovinian. --- Justification (theology). --- Macarius. --- Manichaeism. --- Marcion of Sinope. --- Marcionism. --- Matthew 25. --- Maximilla. --- Melania the Elder. --- Metempsychosis. --- Monophysitism. --- Montanism. --- Natural evil. --- Nomina sacra. --- Origen. --- Outer darkness. --- Paganism. --- Panarion. --- Paschal. --- Paul of Samosata. --- Paulinus of Nola. --- Pelagianism. --- Pelagians (Quietism). --- Polemic. --- Predestination. --- Priscillian. --- Priscillianism. --- Psalm 1. --- Religion. --- Renunciation. --- Sabellianism. --- Sexual Desire (book). --- Simon Magus. --- Sin. --- Spiritual body. --- Spirituality. --- Subordinationism. --- Superiority (short story). --- Susanna (Book of Daniel). --- The City of God (book). --- The Righteous Men. --- The Sheep and the Goats. --- Theodicy. --- Theodore of Mopsuestia. --- Theodosius I. --- Theology. --- Treatise on the Resurrection. --- Vigilantius. --- Wickedness. --- Fathers of the church. --- Church controversies. --- Influence.

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