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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"gnosticism"”.
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How Jung’s Theories of The Self May Be Classified as Gnostic and are Grounded in Gnostic Cosmology
… Murray Stein described Jung’s ideas about Gnosticism in relation to the self as hard to follow, and other Jungian analysts have interpreted ancient Gnostic texts but have not paid close attention to Jung’s sources and comments on Gnosticism. This analysis compares Jung’s Gnosticism to a …
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Konfliktas ankstyvosios krikščionybės srovėse: Evangelijos pagal Mariją atvejis /
… monument of gnostic literature. The collision of Gnosticism and orthodox Christianity is pronounced in the Gospel of Mary. In order to highlight this conflict, the thesis firstly investigated the cosmology of the Gospel of Mary and found that the text is a syncretic and eclectic work characterized …
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Mourning, Evil and Grace: A Hermeneutical-Phenomenological Approach
… grace between Augustine, Pelagius, and Manichean Gnosticism with those between Freud, Jung, Fromm, and Jaspers. Through a phenomenological understanding of mourniing and the hermeneutical interpretation of both fourth century theologians and twentieth century psychologists, I argue that evil and …
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Influence and Its Opposite: Presence and Absence in the Work of Harold Bloom
… fiercely revisionistic mystical traditions of Gnosticism and Kaballah, the philosophy of Nietzsche, and the meditations of Emerson, Bloom's theory is revealed—to one's delight or dismay—as profoundly agonistic. Nevertheless, a close reading of these influences of Bloom's reveal a profound …
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Being otherworldly in the world: Michael Oakeshott on religion, aesthetics and politics
… of "Rationalism" to Eric Voegelin's idea of "Gnosticism."
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Losing the Cosmos: Arendt and Voegelin on the Origins of Modernity
… of modernity characterized by alienation and Gnosticism. Three themes are discussed with reference to Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition and Eric Voegelin’s The New Science of Politics: i) the reversal of orders; ii) gnostic alienation; and iii) history. Chapter one situates the crisis in the …
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The Path to Personal Salvation: The Hermetic Trope of Self-Mastery in Shakespeare, Bacon, and Milton
… with early Christianity, Neoplatonism, and Gnosticism. The Hermetic tradition gained importance in the Renaissance with Marsilio Ficino's translations and soon became an alternative avenue for the exploration in the spiritual conception of the 'self' as divine, a conception previously closed …
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Soul searching : an exploration of the relationship between technology and soul through the interpretation of contemporary visual texts
… notions of the soul and technology. Essentially, Gnosticism is based on various religious beliefs and principles that express a negative attitude towards earthly and material existence (Hoeller 2012). Animism, in turn, maintains that the lifeless has life, spirit and soul, and therefore provides …
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John: A Samaritan Gospel
… Is it influenced by Hellenistic culture, Gnosticism, Dositheism, or is it an editorial compilation? These distinct characteristics have led scholars to speculate about the intended recipients of the Fourth Gospel. Identifying the audience is crucial in deciphering these distinct …
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Finding God in the urban landscape : a temple for gnosis in upper Manhattan
Nature and Gnosticism are problematic terms. With the discovery of a library of so called heretical Gnostic texts in 1945, theologians, historians, and believers the world over have been exposed to Christian texts that call into question the liturgical lineage of the "one holy catholic and …
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Importing ‘Faith’: The Effect of American ‘Word of Faith’ Culture on Contemporary English Evangelical Revivalism
… the Protestant Work Ethic and neo-Gnosticism that are an explanation of the<br/>roots and the continuing development of this way of thinking in American culture (and<br/>the globalisation of its religion). The second framework is a more religious<br/>interpretation that explains the …
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A Diachronic Analysis of the Use of Scripture in the Variant Versions of the Apocryphon of John
<p>This dissertation explores at length the Apocryphon of John's ambivalent treatment of the Jewish and Christian scriptures. Although Moses is explicitly corrected at five points in the text--four times mentioned by name (NHC II 13,18-21; 22,22-25; 23,3-4; and 29,6-10) and one time by inference …
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Elementi gnostici nel pensiero di Guido Ceronetti
Questo lavoro intende approfondire la filosofia di Guido Ceronetti ancorandola alla variegata e multiforme costellazione gnostica. L'obiettivo verte anzitutto sulla definizione di una "tradizione" gnostica che attraversi trasversalmente la storia del pensiero filosofico fondando e formando la base …
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Panic on the British Borderlands: The Great God Pan, Victorian Sexuality, and Sacred Space in the Works of Arthur Machen
… Decadence for artificiality or the disavowal of Gnosticism of the worth of mortal life and experiences in the material world. Machen's outlook is similar to Hermeticism, and like the Hermeticists he enjoyed many of the pleasures available in the world and in the narratives of ecstatic wonder that …
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Humor i romantisk text : om Jean Pauls estetik i svensk romantik: C.F. Dahlgrens Mollbergs epistlar (1820), C.J.L. Almqvists Amorina (1822) och C. Livijns Spader Dame (1825)
The three works analyzed here were published at the culmination of Swedish romanticism. The strange mixture of the high and the low, the sacred and the profane that is typical for them has been an interesting challenge for literary scholars. For instance, in older research one sometimes spoke of …
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Listening to Birth: Metallurgy, Maternity, and Vocality in the Reproduction of the Patriarchal State
Listening to Birth asserts that structures of power reproduce themselves by instituting particular modes of listening and sound production. Situating my research within feminist sound studies, I argue that meanings conjured around the audible, material bodies of women were carefully crafted by …
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Truth as Relationship: The Psychology of E. Graham Howe
Dr. Eric Graham Howe (d. 1975) was one of the most important psychologists in early 20th century Britain. Yet, for the most part, his work is relatively unknown. Howe was unjustly dismissed by the psychoanalytic community of his time. Howe was not only left out of the history of psychoanalysis, but …