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- catalog abstract ""'...All investigations of detail over the last half century have proved divergent rather than convergent, and leave us with a portrait of Gnosticism in which the absence of a unifying character seems to be the salient feature' - Hans Jonas, Preface, 1958. No modern writer that I am aware of has brought life to Gnosticism as Jonas has. While in no way neglecting historical or theological issues, Jonas didn't get bogged down in them: he insisted on revealing the existential import of Gnosticism. Indeed, at the end of this book he explores the commonalities of ancient Gnosticism and Heidegger's existentialism. What does it mean to feel one is in a cosmos in which God is alien or absent? Jonas provides a broad sweep of the conditions at the time Gnosticism developed at the beginning of the Christian era. His writing is that of a scholar but not targetted only to scholars... He writes: '... Gnosticism is actually a product of synceticsm [so ] each of these theories can be supported from the sources and none of them is satisfactory alone; but neither is the combination of all of them [supportable] which would make Gnosticism out to mere a mere mosaic of these elements and so miss its autonomous essence.' Yet nearly fifty years later some scholars look for a single source for Gnosticism while many are unable to find a suitably bounded definition. Jonas would not cage Gnosticism. Instead he asserts 'The gnostic movement - such as we must call it - was a widespread phenomena in the critical centuries indicated, feeding like Christianity on the impulses of a widely prevalent human situation, and therefore erupting in many places, many forms, and many languages.' Jonas discusses many Gnostic texts and themes..." -- Amazon.com.".
- catalog contributor b11978738.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""'...All investigations of detail over the last half century have proved divergent rather than convergent, and leave us with a portrait of Gnosticism in which the absence of a unifying character seems to be the salient feature' - Hans Jonas, Preface, 1958. No modern writer that I am aware of has brought life to Gnosticism as Jonas has. While in no way neglecting historical or theological issues, Jonas didn't get bogged down in them: he insisted on revealing the existential import of Gnosticism. Indeed, at the end of this book he explores the commonalities of ancient Gnosticism and Heidegger's existentialism. What does it mean to feel one is in a cosmos in which God is alien or absent? Jonas provides a broad sweep of the conditions at the time Gnosticism developed at the beginning of the Christian era. His writing is that of a scholar but not targetted only to scholars... He writes: '... Gnosticism is actually a product of synceticsm [so ] each of these theories can be supported from the sources and none of them is satisfactory alone; but neither is the combination of all of them [supportable] which would make Gnosticism out to mere a mere mosaic of these elements and so miss its autonomous essence.' Yet nearly fifty years later some scholars look for a single source for Gnosticism while many are unable to find a suitably bounded definition. Jonas would not cage Gnosticism. Instead he asserts 'The gnostic movement - such as we must call it - was a widespread phenomena in the critical centuries indicated, feeding like Christianity on the impulses of a widely prevalent human situation, and therefore erupting in many places, many forms, and many languages.' Jonas discusses many Gnostic texts and themes..." -- Amazon.com.".
- catalog description "1. Introduction : East and West in Hellenism -- PART I. Gnostic literature - main tenets, symbolic language. 2. The meaning of Gnosis and the extent of the Gnostic movement -- 3. Gnostic imagery and symbolic language -- -- PART II. Gnostic systems of thought. 4. Simon Magus -- 5. The "hymn of the pearl" -- 6. The angels that made the world. The gospel of Marcion -- 7. The Poimandres of Hermes Trismegistus -- 8. The Valentinian speculation -- 9. Creation, world history, and salvation according to Mani -- -- PART III. Gnosticism and the classical mind. 10. The cosmos in Greek and Gnostic evaluation -- 11. Virtue and the soul in Greek and Gnostic teaching -- Supplements to the second edition. 12. The recent discoveries in the field of Gnosticism -- 13. Epilogue : Gnosticism, Nihilism and Existentialism.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 342-355) and index.".
- catalog extent "xxxvi, 359 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0807058017 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Boston : Beacon Press,".
- catalog subject "273/.1 21".
- catalog subject "BT1390 .J62 2001".
- catalog subject "Gnosticism.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Introduction : East and West in Hellenism -- PART I. Gnostic literature - main tenets, symbolic language. 2. The meaning of Gnosis and the extent of the Gnostic movement -- 3. Gnostic imagery and symbolic language -- -- PART II. Gnostic systems of thought. 4. Simon Magus -- 5. The "hymn of the pearl" -- 6. The angels that made the world. The gospel of Marcion -- 7. The Poimandres of Hermes Trismegistus -- 8. The Valentinian speculation -- 9. Creation, world history, and salvation according to Mani -- -- PART III. Gnosticism and the classical mind. 10. The cosmos in Greek and Gnostic evaluation -- 11. Virtue and the soul in Greek and Gnostic teaching -- Supplements to the second edition. 12. The recent discoveries in the field of Gnosticism -- 13. Epilogue : Gnosticism, Nihilism and Existentialism.".
- catalog title "The gnostic religion : the message of the alien God & the beginnings of Christianity / Hans Jonas.".
- catalog type "text".