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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1922 Edition.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1897 Edition.
This volume in honour of Johannes van Oort, formerly University of
Utrecht, presently Professor of Patristics and Gnosticism at the
Universities of Nijmegen and Pretoria, and past-President of the
International Association of Manichaean Studies (IAMS), brings
together a rich variety of studies on Augustine, Manichaeism, and
other Gnostic currents, thus reflecting the honorand's research
interests. The unique collection is divided into four sections: I.
Studies in Augustine: Confessions, Sermons, Letters & De
Haeresibus; Augustine on Grace & Pluralism; Augustinian
'Gnosis'; II. Studies in Manichaeism: Origins & Myth; Doctrines
& Cult; Diffusion & Art; III. Studies in Manichaeism and
Augustine: Doctrines; Polemics & Debates with Manichaean
Contemporaries; IV. Studies in 'Other Gnosticism': Gnosticism and
'Apocryphal' Texts; Sources of (Ps.) Hippolytus' Refutatio; the
Gospel of Judas; Modern Yesidi Gnosticism. The 35 studies are
preceded by an overview of Prof. van Oort's scholarly activities
and publications
A series of poems written over forty years illustrates Phillip
Medhurst's progress from orthodox Christian to Gnostic.
In this selection of inspired writings - poetry as well as prose -
Phillip Medhurst expresses Gnostic Truth as manifested in the
ministry of Jesus of Nazareth, who is revealed as "Gnosis made
word."
The Kephalaia of the Teacher is the most detailed account available
to modern scholarship of the teachings of Mani, and of the
universal religion that he founded as the final successor to
Buddha, Zarathushtra and Jesus. This volume provides the first
complete English translation of the Coptic text (c. 400 CE),
together with introduction, commentaries and indices. Topics
include the apostleship of Mani, the practices of the Manichaean
community, accounts of the heavenly and demonic beings and worlds,
as well as discussions of astrology and religious psychology. In
Manichaeism many of the gnostic and dualistic themes of early
Christianity achieved the status of a world religion, and the
subject is the heir to contemporary interest in heterodoxy and the
deconstruction of received histories (see the Nag Hammadi codices).
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