Gnosis: The Nature and History of an Ancient Religion (1983 Rudolph / Wilson), book (English ed.)

Gnosis: The Nature and History of an Ancient Religion (1983) is the English edition of Die Gnosis: Wesen und Geschichte einer spätantiken Religion (1977 Rudolph), book. Translated from the German by Robert McLachlan Wilson.

Editions

Published in San Francisco, CA: Harper & Row, 1983.

Contents

List of Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Translator's note -- The Heresiological Literature and the Older History of Research -- The Early Heresiologists and Their Works -- The Older Sources -- The History of Research -- The Nag Hammadi Discovery and its Significance -- The Main Features of Gnostic Ideology and Mythology -- Dualism -- Cosmology and Cosmogony -- Anthropology and Anthropogony -- The Doctrine of Redemption and the Redeemer -- The Ascent of the Soul and the End of the World -- Community, Cult and Social Practice (Ethics) -- Presuppositions and Causes. The Problem of Origins -- Early Schools and Systems -- The Great Systems of the Second Century -- Manicheism -- A Relic: The Mandeans -- A Historical Survey of the Changes and Consequences of Gnosis

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