Gnosticism is a generic term for the beliefs and practices of a bewildering number of unorthodox religious sects that flourished in the Roman Empire and Western Asia during the early centuries of t…
The Nag Hammadi Scriptures, edited by Marvin Meyer, is the most complete, up-to-date, one-volume, English-language edition of the renowned library of Gnostic manuscripts discovered in Egypt in 1945…
Book by Attridge, Harold W., Hodgson Jr., Robert, Hedrick, Charles W., Working Seminar on Gnosticism and Early Christianity
First published in 1978, The Nag Hammadi Library was widely acclaimed by critics and scholars alike. Containing many of the writings of the Gnostics since the time of Christ, this was the work that…
Karya yang dimuat dalam buku ini adalah suatu upaya untuk mempelajari secara sistematis mengenai isi ajaran dua aliran kerohanian penting yang hidup berdampingan dengan gereja. Yang satu hidup pada…
This book contains primary source material for Gnostic writings along with introductions by the author that put things into historical context. The study of primary source Gnostic writing is invalu…
This introduction to Gnosis by Christoph Markschies combines great clarity with immense learning. In his Introduction, Markschies defines the term Gnosis and its relationship to 'Gnosticism', indic…
The belief that matter, the body and its appetites are fundamentally evil os Gnostic. God created the priritual sphere; the devil made the earth and all its works.Gnosis, the secret knowledge of Gn…
For this second edition, Dr. Grant has extensively revised his now classic study. The author sees Gnostic influences in Jewish as well as Greek thought and shows how the early Church reacted to the…
Was there a pre-Christian Gnosticism? How fully developed was Gnosticism in the first century? Did Gnosticism directly or indirectly influence nascent Christianity? How have new texts and new studi…