The Gnostics: The First Christian Heretics - Couverture souple

Martin, Seán

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1842433393 ISBN 13 : 9781842433393

Editeur : Pocket Essentials, 2010

Synopsis

Gnosticism - derived from the Greek word gnosis, 'to know'' - is the name given to various religious schools that proliferated in the first centuries after Christ. Although largely stamped out by the Church by the sixth century, Gnostocism survived underground through groups such as the Bogomils and the Cathars and influenced the Renaissance, the Enlightenment,the psychologist Carl Jung, the Existentialists, the New Age movement and writers as diverse as William Blake and Albert Camus. Sean Martin recounts its long and diverse history, relevant to this very day.

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À propos de l'auteur

Sean Martin is a writer, poet and filmmaker. He is the author of The Knights Templar, The Cathars, The Gnostics, The Black Death, Alchemy and Alchemists, A Short History of Disease and, for Kamera Books, Andrei Tarkovsky and New Waves in Cinema. His films include Lanterna Magicka: Bill Douglas & the Secret History of Cinema (released by the BFI), Folie £ Deux and a series of documentaries on the filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky: Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev: A Journey (released by Criterion), The Dream in the Mirror (released by Criterion), The Last Dream: Andrei Tarkovsky and The Sacrifice and A Dream of Italy: Tarkovsky and Nostalghia. Martin has also appeared in a television programme about the Cathars, The Nazi Quest for the Holy Grail (Nerd TV/Channel 5), in addition to a number of other documentaries.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pocket Essentials
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1842433393
• ISBN 13: 9781842433393
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 176
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible