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| Titre : | The Gnostics |
| Auteurs : | Tobias Churton, Auteur |
| Type de document : | texte imprimé |
| Editeur : | New York [USA] : Barnes & Noble, 1987 |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-7607-0478-3 |
| Format : | xi + 187 p. / Bibliographie; index; planches photo N&B hors-texte |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Index. décimale : | NM (Manichéisme; gnosticisme) |
| Résumé : |
The Greek word “gnosis” means knowledge; the Gnostics themselves used it to refer to the spiritual knowledge they believed would redeem them from what they regarded as the inherent evil of the material universe. As a mystical alternative tradition within Christianity, Gnosticism suffered the hostility of the official church and, as a result, remains largely unknown or misunderstood to this day.
Writing for the interested layperson, Tobias Churton hopes to return Gnosticism to the center of its own story, rather than relegating it to the heretical chapters of orthodox history. Beginning with the “Gnostic Gospels,” buried at Nag Hammadi, Egypt in the fourth century and unearthed in 1945, Churton takes the reader on a spiritual journey through two millennia and across Europe. He pays particular attention to southern France of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, for it was there that Gnosticism, driven to the verge of extinction, burst into new life as Catharism, a heresy so appalling to the church that it founded the Inquisition specifically to crush it. But fire and sword could not kill Gnostic ideas. They are a persistent and persuasive part of both our high art and our popular culture—as The Gnostics proves by pointing out their influence on such figures as the humanist philosopher Pico della Mirándola, the poet William Blake, and the composer John Lennon, who praised the Gnostics for “becoming Christs themselves.” |
| Note de contenu : |
- Introduction
- Acknowledgments PART ONE - Gross Bodies - 1. Gross Bodies: The Burial / The Discovery / What happened to the Texts? / The Texts / Did God write the Nag Hammadi Library? - 2. The Higher Reason: The Second Century — A conversation with Hans ]onas / Alexandria / The Hermetists - 3. Madness and Blasphemy: What was wrong with the Gnostics? / The Valentinian System / The End of the first great Gnostic Movement PART TWO - The Good Men - 4. The Good Men: Introduction / The Sources / The Arrival of the Cathars in twelfth century Languedoc -The Buggers / Were the Cathars Gnostics? - 5. A Mystery Tour: Laurac / Fanjeaux / Enter Dominic Guzman / Guilhabert de Castres (circa 1150-1240) / The Debates / Minerve / Vats / The Inquisition / Montsegur / The Siege of Montsegur (1243-44) / The Treasure of Montsegur / The Tragedy of Montsegur - 6. What happened to the Cathars?: Were the Cathars a menace to society? / So why were the Cathars persecuted? / Why then did the Cathars disappear? PART THREE - The Hermetic Philosophy - 7. Hermes comes to Florence: Florence 1460 - 8. Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494) and the Dignity of Man: The Dignity of Man - 9. An eternal God clothed in an infinite Nature - 10. One symbol, many worlds: Giordano Bruno (1348-1600) CONCLUSION - The Everlasting Gospel - 11. From muddy waters to the River of Life: A Universe drained of god / Man the Monster / William Blake / Eternity in an Hour - 12. Thou also dwellest in Eternity: The Rosicrucians / The New Age: the origins of the Fraternity / Tubingen — The Truth will make you Free Gnostalgia / The Masonic Phase / Cosmic Man! - APPENDICES: 1. Chronology / 2. The Nag Hammadi Library - Bibliography - Index |
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