Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> Gnosticism

For several years, Miguel Conner has engaged the most prominent writers and scholars on Gnosticism and early Christianity on Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio. The acclaimed Voices of Gnosticism collected interviews with academic scholars of Gnosticism. Now in Other Voices of Gnosticism Miguel Conner extends his net to include leading writings such as Richard Smoley, Gary Lachman and Tobias Churton.
Miguel and his guests discuss all aspects of Gnosticism: from Hermes Trismegistus to William Blake, from C.G. Jung to Philip K Dick, from the ancient Sethians and Valentinians to the medieval...

This paperback edition of and essential Brill reference book includes Books II and III of the Panarion. This volume is chiefly concerned with the sects contemporary with Epiphanius, the Arian, Manichaean and others. It thus describes the thought of the fourth century church, and includes a number of source documents, many of them found only here. Frank Williamsn offers the only full translation of Epiphanius in a modern language.

This newly updated volume is as fascinating as "The Da Vinci Code" and "Holy Blood, Holy Grail," and yet the knowledge contained within has been hidden for centuries. The Gnostic Gospels were written from the second to the fourth century CE, but were denounced as heresy by orthodox Christians in the middle of the second century. Most of the Gnostic writings use Christian terminology and offer traditions about Jesus that were considered secret, hidden from "the many" who constitute what came to be called the Catholic...

This paperback edition of the Pistis Sophia is a complete and accurate reprint of the original translation by G.R.S. Mead in 1921. It contains all of Mead's original notes and running commentary, as well as his annotated bibliography which includes numerous sources and further research material for the reader.

The Pistis Sophia is a gnostic text thought to have been written sometime between the 3rd and 4th centuries AD. According to Mead, there were two codices discovered in the late 18th century that contained the original work. The Bruce Codex was brought to Oxford by the famous...