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Practicing Gnosis - Ritual, Magic, Theurgy and Liturgy in Nag Hammadi, Manichaean and Other Ancient Literature. Essays in Honor of Birger A. Pearson (Hardcover)
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Practicing Gnosis - Ritual, Magic, Theurgy and Liturgy in Nag Hammadi, Manichaean and Other Ancient Literature. Essays in Honor of Birger A. Pearson (Hardcover)
Series: Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies, 85
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Ritual, magic, liturgy, and theurgy were central features of
Gnosticism, and yet Gnostic practices remain understudied. This
anthology is meant to fill in this gap and address more fully what
the ancient Gnostics were doing. While previously we have studied
the Gnostics as intellectuals in pursuit of metaphysical knowledge,
the essays in this book attempt to understand the Gnostics as
ecstatics striving after religious experience, as prophets seeking
revelation, as mystics questing after the ultimate God, as healers
attempting to care for the sick and diseased. These essays
demonstrate that the Gnostics were not necessarily trendy
intellectuals seeking epistomological certainities. They were after
religious experiences that relied on practices. The book is
organized comparatively in a history-of-religions approach with
sections devoted to Initiatory, Recurrent, Therapeutic, Ecstatic,
and Philosophic Practices. This book celebrates the brilliant
career of Birger A. Pearson.
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