Cosmology and Fate in Gnosticism and Graeco-Roman Antiquity
Biographical note
Nicola Denzey Lewis, Ph.D (1998), Princeton University, is Visiting Associate Professor in Religious Studies at Brown University. A specialist in Gnosticism, her publications include Introduction to 'Gnosticism': Ancient Voices, Christian Worlds (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012).
Readership
Those interested in placing Gnosticism within the context of the intellectual history of the Roman Empire and scholars of emergent Christianity and the religions of Graeco-Roman antiquity.
Table of contents
1. Were the Gnostics Cosmic Pessimists?
2. Nag Hammadi and the Providential Cosmos
3. This Body of Death: Cosmic Malevolence and Enslavement to Sin in Pauline Exegesis
4. Heimarmene at Nag Hammadi: The Apocryphon of John and On the Origin of the World
5. Middle Platonism, Heimarmene, and the Corpus Hermeticum
6. Ways Out I: Interventions of the Savior God
7. Ways Out II: Baptism and Cosmic Freedom
8. Astral Determinism in the Gospel of Judas
9. Conclusions, and a New Way Forward
2. Nag Hammadi and the Providential Cosmos
3. This Body of Death: Cosmic Malevolence and Enslavement to Sin in Pauline Exegesis
4. Heimarmene at Nag Hammadi: The Apocryphon of John and On the Origin of the World
5. Middle Platonism, Heimarmene, and the Corpus Hermeticum
6. Ways Out I: Interventions of the Savior God
7. Ways Out II: Baptism and Cosmic Freedom
8. Astral Determinism in the Gospel of Judas
9. Conclusions, and a New Way Forward
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