[PDF] Gnosticism Judaism And Egyptian Christianity eBook

Author : Birger A. Pearson
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 29,7 MB
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Category : History
ISBN : 9781451404340

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In this important contribution to the scholarly study of Egyptian Gnosticism, Pearson situates Gnosticism in its historical context and describes its manifold relationships to Judaism, early Christianity, and ancient Platonism. Birger Pearson gives special attention to the controversial issue of the impact of Gnosticism on early Egyptian Christianity up to the Muslim conquest of the seventh century. "Pearson is one of the most thorough and perceptive scholars in Gnostics studies today. The topics he deals with here are current and important, and no doubt will remain so for some time. This volume is a must for everyone in the field." ——Douglas M. Parrott, University of California, Riverside "Uniformly excellent contributions on the subject.... Students and teachers will benefit from Pearson's insightful and creative observations." ——Marvin Meyer, Chapman College

Author : Birger Albert Pearson
Publisher : Continuum
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 27,77 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780800631048

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An assessment of the relationships and mutual impact of Gnosticism, ancient Judaism, and early Egyptian Christianity.

Author : Anthony Hilhorst
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 44,69 MB
Release : 2018-12-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9047407679

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This collection of essays gives a vivid impression of Egypt as background and stage of Jewish, Christian, and Gnostic thought and life in antiquity. It demonstrates Egypt’s important role in the history, literature and culture of these religions.

Author : Birger Albert Pearson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 41,38 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567026101

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This book provides significant insights into the rise of early Christianity in Egypt and its impact on Christianity in Palestine.

Author : Carl B. Smith
Publisher :
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 38,99 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN :

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Reviews the theories about Gnosticism and its sources and details Smith's hypothesis, offering an excellent introductory text on Gnosticism.

Author : Karl W Luckert
Publisher :
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 16,72 MB
Release : 2021-03-05
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ISBN : 9780983907275

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Christian Thought took shape during millennia when religion and politics where still the same. During the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius it began to spread as a movement of protest against the Roman cult of emperor deification. Prehistoric chiefs among Stone Age hunters already knew themselves to be sons of totemic gods- Eagle, Bear, Lion, Wolf, Dragon and more. Sons of less specialized deities invented agriculture, while hunters and herdsmen, as warriors, progressed to "hyper-domestication"-Sons of the mightiest gods proceeded to enslave humankind. Christians tell their story about God Father Almighty who sent his Son, who died by Roman crucifixion, resurrected and ascended into Heaven, for enthronement there. The Christian story mocked and topped religious as well as political paths to salvation. Three thousand years of Son of God tradition were rendered obsolete-Egyptian, Persian, Greek, and Roman-were replaced by the only-begotten Son of God, Jesus of Nazareth, an oil-anointed commoner. Three centuries after Jesus was crucified, the Emperor Constantine, presiding over all religions of Rome as Pontifex Maximus, began to favor Christianity. Thenceforth Christians in Western civilization, as "siblings of Jesus Christ" and as "equal children under God Almighty" have, by their faith, risen to the "level of royalty" where in later democratic revolutions their secularized offspring still could insist on equal status for all humankind.

Author : Karl W. Luckert
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 20,1 MB
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791409671

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Egyptian Light and Hebrew Fire focuses on the cosmology of ancient Egypt and on derived traditions. The book outlines how the ancient Egyptian world view affected Hebrew religion, Greek philosophy, Neoplatonism, Gnosticism, and early Christianity. It traces ideological roots of Western civilization back to its earliest known prototypes in the Pyramid and Coffin texts of ancient Egypt. It challenges us to refocus some of our history of early Greek philosophy, and it positively identifies Neoplatonism as a philosophized and scarcely disguised neo-Egyptian theology.

Author : G. R. Mead
Publisher : Health Research Books
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 23,13 MB
Release : 1997-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780787306052

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1906 Some short sketches among the Gnostics mainly of the first two centuries - A contribution to the study of Christian origins. They strove for the knowledge of God, the science of realities, the gnosis of the things-that-are; wisdom was their goal;.