The Gnostics: Identifying an Ancient Christian Cult - Brossura

Logan, A. H. B.

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ISBN 10: 0567040623 ISBN 13: 9780567040626

Casa editrice: Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2006

Riassunto

This book is an attempt to demonstrate the existence and explore the character, theology, liturgy and cultic beliefs and practices of the Gnostic movement. This is a fascinating study into the past to identify the Gnostics as a cult movement originating in the late first century and arising out of Christianity.

Logan explores the Gnostics' own sense of identity against the Catholics, seeks to reconstruct the unique Gnostic rite of initiation from Nag Hammadi and related texts and, finally, argues that the early third certury Hypogeum of the Aurelii in Rome, with its remarkable series of paintings, represents a cult centre of Gnostics, where they recalled their initiation and theology and buried their dead.

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L'autore

Rev. Dr Alastair H.B. Logan is Senior Lecturer in Theology, University of Exeter.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Bloomsbury T & T Clark
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0567040623
• ISBN 13: 9780567040626
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 150