Gnostic Countercultures: Terror and Intrigue - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9004436987 ISBN 13 : 9789004436985

Editeur : Brill, 2020

Synopsis

In Gnostic Countercultures, fourteen scholars investigate countercultural aspects associated with the gnostic which is broadly conceived with reference to the claim to have special knowledge of the divine, which either transcends or transgresses conventional religious knowledge. The papers explore the concept of the gnostic in Western culture from the ancient world to the modern New Age.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

April D. DeConick, Ph.D. (1994, University of Michigan), is the Isla Carroll and Percy E. Turner Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Rice University. She has published extensively on early Christianity, esotericism, mysticism, and Gnosticism, including The Gnostic New Age: How a Countercultural Spirituality Revolutionized Religion from Antiquity to Today (Columbia University Press, 2016). Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta, Ph.D. (1997, University Complutense; 2004, University of Groningen) is Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of Groningen. He is the author of numerous studies on Greco-Roman Philosophy; Early Christianity, Early Christian Apocrypha, Gnosticism, and Plutarch of Chaeronea.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Brill
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9004436987
• ISBN 13: 9789004436985
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 348
• Éditeur: DeConick April, Roig Lanzillotta Lautaro
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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