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| Titre : | The Gnostic Religion : The Message of the Alien God and the Beginnings of Christianity |
| Auteurs : | Hans Jonas, Auteur |
| Type de document : | texte imprimé |
| Mention d'édition : | Second ed. revised |
| Editeur : | Boston [USA] : Beacon Press, 1991 |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-8070-5799-5 |
| Format : | xx + 358 p. |
| Note générale : | First edition: 1958 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Index. décimale : | NM (Manichéisme; gnosticisme) |
| Note de contenu : |
- Preface
- Preface to the Second Edition - 1. Introduction: East and West in Hellenism (a) The Part of the West: Greek Culture on the Eve of Alexander’s Conquests / Cosmopolitanism and the New Greek Colonization / The Hellenization of the East / Later Hellenism: The Change from Secular to Religious Culture The Four Stages of Greek Culture (b) The Part of the East: The East on the Eve of Alexander's Conquests / The East Under Hellenism / The Re-emergence of the East PART I. GNOSTIC LITERATURE — MAIN TENETS, SYMBOLIC LANGUAGE - 2. The Meaning of Gnosis and the Extent of the Gnostic Movement: (a) Spiritual Climate of the Era (b) The Name "Gnosticism” (c) The Origin of Gnosticism (d) The Nature of Gnostic “Knowledge” (e) Survey of Sources Secondary or Indirect Sources Primary or Direct Sources (f) Abstract of Main Gnostic Tenets: Theology; Cosmology; Anthropology; Eschatology; Morality - 3. Gnostic Imagery and Symbolic Language: (a) The “Alien” (b) “Beyond,” "Without,” “This World," and "The Other World” (c) Worlds and Aeons (d) The Cosmic Habitation and the Stranger’s Sojourn (e) "Light” and “Darkness," "Life" and "Death” (f) "Mixture,” ’Dispersal,” the "One,” and the "Many” (g) “Fall,” “Sinking,” "Capture” (h) Forlornness, Dread, Homesickness (i) Numbness, Sleep, Intoxication (j) The Noise of the World (k) The “Call from Without” (l) The “Alien Man” (m) The Content of the Call (n) The Response to the Call (o) Gnostic Allegory: Eve and the Serpent ; Cain and the Creator ; Prometheus and Zeus - Appendix to Chapter 3: Glossary of Mandaean Terms PART II. GNOSTIC SYSTEMS OF THOUGHT - 4. Simon Magus - 5. The "Hymn of the Pearl”: (a) The Text (b) Commentary : Serpent, Sea, Egypt ; The Impure Garment ; The Letter ; The Conquering of the Serpent and the Ascent ; The Heavenly Garment - the Image; The Transcendental Self ; The Pearl - 6. The Angels That Made the World. The Gospel of Marcion: (a) The Angels That Made the World (b) The Gospel of Marcion: Marcion's Unique Position in Gnostic Thought ; Redemption According to Marcion ; The Two Gods ; “Grace Freely Given”; Marcion’s Ascetic Morality ; Marcion and Scripture - 7. The Poimandres of Hermes Trismegistus: (a) The Text (b) Commentary: The Origin of the Divine Man ; The Descent of Man - the Planetary Soul; The Union of Man with Nature - the Narcissus Motif ; The Ascent of the Soul ; The First Beginnings - 8. The Valentinian Speculation: (a) The Speculative Principle of Valentinianism (b) The System : Development of the Pleroma ; The Crisis in the Pleroma ; Consequences of the Crisis. Function of the Limit ; Restoration of the Pleroma ; Events Outside the Pleroma ; Sufferings of the Lower Sophia ; Origination of Matter ; Derivation of the Single Elements ; Demiurge and Creation of the World ; Salvation - Appendix I to Chapter 8: The Position of Fire Among the Elements / Appendix II to Chapter 8: The System of the Apocryphon of John - 9. Creation, World History, and Salvation According to Mani: (a) Mani’s Method; His Vocation (b) The System: The Primal Principles ; The Attack of the Darkness ; The Pacifism of the World of light ; The First Creation: Primal Man ; The Defeat of Primal Man ; The Sacrifice and Adulteration of the Soul ; The Second Creation - The Living Spirit - Liberation of Primal Man; Creation of the Macrocosmos ; The Third Creation: The Messenger ; Origin of Plants and Animals ; Creation of Adam and Eve ; Mission of the Luminous Jesus - the Jesus Patibilis; Practical Conclusions - Mani’s Ascetic Morality ; The Doctrine of the Last Things (c) Recapitulation: Two Types of Dualism in Gnostic Speculation PART III. GNOSTICISM AND THE CLASSICAL MIND - 10. The Cosmos in Greek and Gnostic Evaluation: (a) The Idea of "Cosmos" and Man’s Place in It: The Greek Position ; Cosmos-Piety as a Position of Retreat ; The Gnostic Revaluation ; The Greek Reaction (b) Destiny and the Stars: Forms of Sidereal Piety in the Ancient World ; The Gnostic Revaluation ; The Greek Reaction; the Brotherhood of Man and Stars ; The Acosmic Brotherhood of Salvation - 11. Virtue and the Soul in Greek and Gnostic Teaching: (a) The Ideal of Virtue; It's Absence in Gnosticism (b) Gnostic Morality: Nihilism and Libertinism ; Asceticism, Self-Abnegation, the New "Virtue" ; Areté and the Christian "Virtues" ; Virtue in Philo Judaeus (c) Gnostic Psychology: The Demonological Interpretation of Inwardness ; The Soul as Female ; Ecstatic Illumination (d) Conclusion: The Unknown God - Supplements to Second Edition - 12. The Recent Discoveries in the Field of Gnosticism / Addendum to Chapter 12 - 13. Epilogue: Gnosticism, Nihilism and Existentialism / Corrections and Additions - Bibliography - Selected Supplementary Bibliography - Index to Proper Names |
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