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Jonas H the Gnostic Religion the Message of the Alien God and the Beginnings of Christianity London 1992 Xx 358 P Encuadernacion Original Nuevo
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Do you believe other gospels contemporary with those in the Bible ought to be heardDo you question certain articles in the Apostles Creed such as the virgin birth and bodily resurrectionDo you believe other religions other than Christianity have validityDo you accept that women have the right to be clergyIs your personal relationship to God more important than believing what you are told to believeIs your way of faith honestly seeking what is true for the world and GodDo you believe Christs call was to a dynamic faith rather than to any system of beliefsIf you answered yes to a majority of these questions you will find that the Gnostic Gospels support a different way to be Christian These long lost hidden writings as do the gospels in the Bible lift up the power and love of Christ This book explains how and why
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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 foundations of the ancient world Subversive and revolutionary Gnostics taught that prayer and mediation could bring human beings into an ecstatic spiritual union with a transcendent deity This mystical strain affected not just Christianity but many other religions and it characterizes our understanding of the purpose and meaning of religion todayIn The Gnostic New Age April D DeConick recovers this vibrant underground history to prove that Gnosticism was not suppressed or defeated by the Catholic Church long ago nor was the movement a fabrication to justify the violent repression of alternative forms of Christianity Gnosticism alleviated human suffering soothing feelings of existential brokenness and alienation through the promise of renewal as God DeConick begins in ancient Egypt and follows with the rise of Gnosticism in the Middle Ages the advent of theosophy and other occult movements in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and contemporary New Age spiritual philosophies As these theories find expression in sciencefiction and fantasy films DeConick sees evidence of Gnosticisms next incarnation Her work emphasizes the universal countercultural appeal of a movement that embodies much more than a simple challenge to religious authority
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This Volume presents for the first time a complete introduction to Mandaeanism a fascinating branch of Gnosticism that has survived to the present day In an engaging style that mirrors the interesting nature of his subject Edmondo Lupieri portrays the traditional way of life of the Mandaeans still found living in Iraq and Iran and introduces readers to the world of Mandaean ideas Lupieri reconstructs the history of the interaction between Mandaeanism and the Western world beginning with Ricoldo da Montecroce a thirteenthcentury Italian monk who is the first known European to write about the Mandaeans and continuing on to recent scholarship He also offers a critical analysis of the Mandaean written and oral traditions concerning their origin history and selfunderstanding including their view that they are the only ones on earth who possess the true and oldest faith This book is made even more valuable with the inclusion of an extensive anthology of translated Mandaean texts complete with notes This gathering of writings presents the spiritual world of Mandaeanism with fragments of mythicaltheological texts and pages of ethical and historical meditations Special attention is given in the notes to the contraposition against other religions Judaism Christianity Islam and other minor groups and to the ideas Mandaeans have of biblical and historical figures Expertly researched engagingly written and enhanced with pictures of Mandaean art this volume will interest a wide range of readers
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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 foundations of the ancient world Subversive and revolutionary Gnostics taught that prayer and mediation could bring human beings into an ecstatic spiritual union with a transcendent deity This mystical strain affected not just Christianity but many other religions and it characterizes our understanding of the purpose and meaning of religion todayIn The Gnostic New Age April D DeConick recovers this vibrant underground history to prove that Gnosticism was not suppressed or defeated by the Catholic Church long ago nor was the movement a fabrication to justify the violent repression of alternative forms of Christianity Gnosticism alleviated human suffering soothing feelings of existential brokenness and alienation through the promise of renewal as God DeConick begins in ancient Egypt and follows with the rise of Gnosticism in the Middle Ages the advent of theosophy and other occult movements in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and contemporary New Age spiritual philosophies As these theories find expression in sciencefiction and fantasy films DeConick sees evidence of Gnosticisms next incarnation Her work emphasizes the universal countercultural appeal of a movement that embodies much more than a simple challenge to religious authority
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Gnostic America is a reading of current American culture politics and religious life according to the ancient movement known as Gnosticism In it Peter M Burfeind builds off the foundations of Hans Jonas Denis de Rougement Norman Cohn William Voegelin Carl Jung and Harold Bloom each of whom saw the effects of Gnosticism in contemporary American and Western life He explores the spiritual mechanisms going on behind everything from transgenderism to socalled contemporary worship from the deconstructionist movement to the role pop music and media have in our culture from progressive politics to the Emergent Church Particularly challenging is Burfeinds claim that both progressivism and Neoevangelicalism seemingly at odds in the culture wars actually share the same Gnostic roots Burfeinds book is a tour de force through contemporary rock pop movies television politics and religion showing how many of the values driving these cultural elements are informed by the ancient esoteric teachings of Gnosticism Burfeind marshals a ton of surprising evidence to make his case taking us through ancient and Medieval history through the Enlightenment and Romantic periods to today Those willing to grapple with the philosophical and spiritual positions of the fathers of contemporary American life will be rewarded Gnostic America is a must read for those who sense a new spiritual but not religious religion has arisen in America but who cant put their finger on what exactly this religion is Burfeind commits the sacrilege of defining a religion that claims to be beyond definition More importantly he poses the question if the spiritual trends of contemporary culture are indeed a religion what First Amendment safeguards remain for those who havent evolved with the emerging new consciousness but choose to remain stuck in supposedly retrograde paradigms of thought
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Gnostic religion is the expression of a religious worldview which is dominated by the concept of Gnosis an esoteric knowledge of God and the human being which grants salvation to those who possess it Roelof van den Broek presents here a fresh approach to the gnostic current of Late Antiquity within its historical and religious context based on sources in Greek Latin and Coptic including discussions of the individual works of preserved gnostic literature Van den Broek explores the various gnostic interpretations of the Christian faith that were current in the second and third centuries whilst showing that despite its influence on early Christianity gnostic religion was not a typically Christian phenomenon This book will be of interest to theologians historians of religion students and scholars of the history of Late Antiquity and early Christianity as well as specialists in ancient gnostic and hermetic traditions
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The people of the late ancient Mediterranean world thought about and encountered gods angels demons heroes and other spirits on a regular basis These figures were diverse ambiguous and unclassified and were not ascribed any clear or stable moral valence Whether or not they were helpful or harmful under specific circumstances determined if and what virtues were attributed to them That all changed in the third century CE when a handful of Platonist philosophersPlotinus Origen Porphyry and Iamblichusbegan to produce competing systematic discourses that ordered the realm of spirits in moral and ontological termsIn Spiritual Taxonomies and Ritual Authority Heidi MarxWolf recounts how these Platonist philosophers organized the spirit world into hierarchies or spiritual taxonomies positioning themselves as the high priests of the highest gods in the process By establishing themselves as experts on sacred ritual and doctrinal matters they were able to fortify their authority prestige and reputation The Platonists were not alone in this enterprise and it brought them into competition with rivals to their new authority priests of traditional polytheistic religions and gnostics Members of these rival groups were also involved in identifying and ordering the realm of spirits and in providing the ritual means for dealing with that realm Using her lens of spiritual taxonomy to look at these various groups in tandem MarxWolf demonstrates that Platonist philosophers Christian and nonChristian priests and gnostics were more interconnected socially educationally and intellectually than previously recognized
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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 foundations of the ancient world Subversive and revolutionary Gnostics taught that prayer and mediation could bring human beings into an ecstatic spiritual union with a transcendent deity This mystical strain affected not just Christianity but many other religions and it characterizes our understanding of the purpose and meaning of religion todayIn The Gnostic New Age April D DeConick recovers this vibrant underground history to prove that Gnosticism was not suppressed or defeated by the Catholic Church long ago nor was the movement a fabrication to justify the violent repression of alternative forms of Christianity Gnosticism alleviated human suffering soothing feelings of existential brokenness and alienation through the promise of renewal as God DeConick begins in ancient Egypt and follows with the rise of Gnosticism in the Middle Ages the advent of theosophy and other occult movements in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and contemporary New Age spiritual philosophies As these theories find expression in sciencefiction and fantasy films DeConick sees evidence of Gnosticisms next incarnation Her work emphasizes the universal countercultural appeal of a movement that embodies much more than a simple challenge to religious authority
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Gnostic religion is the expression of a religious worldview which is dominated by the concept of Gnosis an esoteric knowledge of God and the human being which grants salvation to those who possess it Roelof van den Broek presents here a fresh approach to the gnostic current of Late Antiquity within its historical and religious context based on sources in Greek Latin and Coptic including discussions of the individual works of preserved gnostic literature Van den Broek explores the various gnostic interpretations of the Christian faith that were current in the second and third centuries whilst showing that despite its influence on early Christianity gnostic religion was not a typically Christian phenomenon This book will be of interest to theologians historians of religion students and scholars of the history of Late Antiquity and early Christianity as well as specialists in ancient gnostic and hermetic traditions
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Because thou hast done this thou art cursed above all cattle and above every beast of the field With those words in Genesis God condemns the serpent for tempting Adam and Eve and the serpent has shouldered the blame ever since But how would the study of religion change if we looked at the Fall from the snakes point of view Would he appear as a bringer of wisdom more generous than the God who wishes to keep his creation ignorant Inspired by the early Gnostics who took that startling view Jeffrey J Kripal uses the serpent as a starting point for a groundbreaking reconsideration of religious studies and its methods In a series of related essays he moves beyond both rational and faithbased approaches to religion exploring the erotics of the gospels and the sexualities of Jesus John and Mary Magdalene He considers Feuerbachs Gnosticism the untapped mystical potential of comparative religion and even the modern mythology of the XMen Ultimately The Serpents Gift is a provocative call for a complete reorientation of religious studies aimed at a larger understanding of the world the self and the divine
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Because thou hast done this thou art cursed above all cattle and above every beast of the field With those words in Genesis God condemns the serpent for tempting Adam and Eve and the serpent has shouldered the blame ever since But how would the study of religion change if we looked at the Fall from the snakes point of view Would he appear as a bringer of wisdom more generous than the God who wishes to keep his creation ignorant Inspired by the early Gnostics who took that startling view Jeffrey J Kripal uses the serpent as a starting point for a groundbreaking reconsideration of religious studies and its methods In a series of related essays he moves beyond both rational and faithbased approaches to religion exploring the erotics of the gospels and the sexualities of Jesus John and Mary Magdalene He considers Feuerbachs Gnosticism the untapped mystical potential of comparative religion and even the modern mythology of the XMen Ultimately The Serpents Gift is a provocative call for a complete reorientation of religious studies aimed at a larger understanding of the world the self and the divine
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Gnostic America is a reading of current American culture politics and religious life according to the ancient movement known as Gnosticism In it Peter M Burfeind builds off the foundations of Hans Jonas Denis de Rougement Norman Cohn William Voegelin Carl Jung and Harold Bloom each of whom saw the effects of Gnosticism in contemporary American and Western life He explores the spiritual mechanisms going on behind everything from transgenderism to socalled contemporary worship from the deconstructionist movement to the role pop music and media have in our culture from progressive politics to the Emergent Church Particularly challenging is Burfeinds claim that both progressivism and Neoevangelicalism seemingly at odds in the culture wars actually share the same Gnostic roots Burfeinds book is a tour de force through contemporary rock pop movies television politics and religion showing how many of the values driving these cultural elements are informed by the ancient esoteric teachings of Gnosticism Burfeind marshals a ton of surprising evidence to make his case taking us through ancient and Medieval history through the Enlightenment and Romantic periods to today Those willing to grapple with the philosophical and spiritual positions of the fathers of contemporary American life will be rewarded Gnostic America is a must read for those who sense a new spiritual but not religious religion has arisen in America but who cant put their finger on what exactly this religion is Burfeind commits the sacrilege of defining a religion that claims to be beyond definition More importantly he poses the question if the spiritual trends of contemporary culture are indeed a religion what First Amendment safeguards remain for those who havent evolved with the emerging new consciousness but choose to remain stuck in supposedly retrograde paradigms of thought
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A digital copy of Message And The Book Sacred Texts Of The Worlds Religions by Bowker Download is immediately available upon purchase
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A magisterial singlevolume guide to the great faiths of the world through their most important writings Grand in its sweep this survey of the sacred writings of the major religions of the world offers a thoughtful introduction to the ideas and beliefs upon which great faiths are built Under the expert guidance of John Bowker a religious scholar and author of international stature readers explore the key texts of Jewish Christian Muslim Hindu Jain Sikh Buddhist Parsi Confucian Daoist and Shinto traditions The author discusses some 400 books among them such wellknown sacred texts as the Bible and the Quran but also spiritual writings by theologians philosophers poets and othersBowker provides clear and illuminating commentary on each text describing the content and core tenets of the work and quoting pertinent passages He also sets the writings in religious and historical contexts showing how they have influencedand in many cases continue to influenceartistic musical literary and political traditions The Message and the Book is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand the meaning and the deep significance of primary religious texts of civilizations around the globe
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This book is the result of an exhaustive six year collation of new bible versions their underlying Greek manuscripts editions and editors It objectively and methodically documents the hidden alliance between new versions and the New Age Movements One World Religion The emerging new Christianity with its substitution of riches for righteousness a crown for a cross and an imitation for a new creation is shown to be a direct result of the wording in new versions Documented are the thousands of words verses and doctrines by which new versions will prepare the apostate churches of these last days to accept the religion of the Antichrist even his mark image and Lucifer worship The Greek manuscripts critical editions lexicons and dictionaries behind the new versions are examined revealing their occult origins contents and yet unreleased material a blueprint for the Antichrists One World Religion and government Presented also is the latest research proving the Authorized King James Version represents not only Christianitys earliest and most widely used Greek text but is the easiest version to read according to computer analysis based formulas from the FleschKincaid research firm Each page opens a door exposing new version editors in agreement with Luciferians occultists and New Age philosophy in mental institutions seance parlors prison cells and court rooms for heresy trials and most shocking of all denying that salvation is through faith in Jesus Christ Five have lost their ability to speak
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This ancient Gnostic text can be a companion for your own spiritual questThe Secret Book of John is the most significant and influential text of the ancient Gnostic religion Part of the library of books found in Nag Hammadi Egypt in 1945 this central myth of Gnosticism tells the story of how God fell from perfect Oneness to imprisonment in the material world and how by knowing our divine nature and our divine originsthat we are one with Godwe reverse Gods descent and find our salvationThe Secret Book of John The Gnostic GospelAnnotated amp Explained decodes the principal themes historical foundation and spiritual contexts of this challenging yet fundamental Gnostic teaching Drawing connections to Christianity Buddhism Hinduism kabbalistic Judaism and Sufism Davies focuses on the mythology and psychology of the Gnostic religious quest He illuminates the Gnostics ardent call for selfawareness and introspection and the empowering message that divine wholeness will be restored not by worshiping false gods in an illusory material world but by our recognition of the inherent divinity within ourselvesNow you can experience and understand this foundational teaching even if you have no previous knowledge of Gnosticism This SkyLight Illuminations edition presents the most important and valued book in Gnostic religion with insightful yet unobtrusive commentary It provides deeper insight into the understanding that in Gnosticism the distinction between savior and saved ceases to existyou must save yourself and in doing so save God
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