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Agnosticism Agnosticism United States Encyclopedias Apocryphal books (New Testament) Criticism, interpretation, etc Atheism Christian heresies History Early church, ca. 30-600 Christianity Church history Primitive and early church Church history Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 Gnosticism United StatesFilter By Subjects
Agnosticism Agnosticism United States Encyclopedias Apocryphal books (New Testament) Criticism, interpretation, etc Atheism Christian heresies History Early church, ca. 30-600 Christianity Church history Primitive and early church Church history Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 Gnosticism United StatesSummary: The three centuries following the death of Jesus were a momentous and turbulent era in Western religious thought. During this time, as Christianity began its massive growth, few if any influences on the theological landscape were as significant as the religious movements know as Gnosticism. Gnosticism intersected deeply with early Christian thought, sparking religious ideologies that competed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 299 GNOEhrman, Bart D.
Summary: Twenty-four lectures on the history and varieties of Christian doctrines in the early church.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Churton, Tobias
Contents: Before the gnostics -- From the Magi to St. Paul -- The first gnostics -- Magic in the Middle Ages -- The sufis -- The troubadours -- The knights templar -- Jacob Bh̲me's Theosophick Cosmos -- Germany 1710-1800: the return of the rosy cross -- Freemasonry in France -- A new aeon: Aleister Crowley -- Light in the jar -- Gnosis and the new physics -- Gnosis today: a personal view.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inner Traditions 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 299 CHUPagels, Elaine H.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books Edition 1989
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Publisher / Publication Date: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 299.932 KINMeyer, Marvin W.
Summary: In 1945 an Egyptian peasant discovered a jar filled with ancient manuscripts. Painstakingly restored and translated, these fragments came to be known as the Nag Hammadi library. Included are gospels of Jesus's life that never made it into the modern Christian Bible as well as a treasury of lost, esoteric wisdom that portrays a side of Christianity suppressed by the institutionalized church....
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2005
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Summary: Who were the Gnostics? Were they heretics or visionaries who possessed the keys to Christianity's deepest secrets? Where did they come from? Did they leave any descendants? Why were they suppressed? Why do their ideas keep reappearing? Forbidden Faith is a comprehensive popular history of Gnosticism, a secretive tradition that has survived for centuries in many forms under many names.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 299 SMOHuff, Peter A.
Summary: This guide provides an overview essay and approximately 50 alphabetically arranged reference entries that explores the background and significance of atheism and agnosticism in modern society.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ABC-CLIO, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC 2021