The Gnostic New Age How a Countercultural Spirituality Revolutionized Religion from Antiquity to Today
Gnosticism is a countercultural spirituality that forever changed the practice of Christianity. Before it emerged in the second century, passage to the afterlife required obedience to God and king. Gnosticism proposed that human beings were manifestations of the divine, unsettling the hierarchical f...
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New York, NY ; Chichester, West Sussex
Columbia University Press
2016, ©2016
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| Collection: | DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Matrix of Ancient Spirituality; 2. The Gnostic True Man; 3. Superpowers and Monsters; 4. Paul and Gnostic Dogma; 5. John and the Dark Cosmos; 6. Gnostic Altered States; 7. Hell Walks and Star Treks; 8. Spiritual Avatars; 9. The Pi of Politics; 10. Pleasantville Religions; 11. Gnosticism Out on a Limb; Bibliography; English Translations of Gnostic Sources; Filmography; Index