Practicing Gnosis ：Ritual, Magic, Theurgy and Liturgy in Nag Hammadi, Manichaean and Other Ancient Literature. Essays in Honor of Birger A. Pearson ( 1 )

Publication subTitle ：Ritual, Magic, Theurgy and Liturgy in Nag Hammadi, Manichaean and Other Ancient Literature. Essays in Honor of Birger A. Pearson

Publication series ：1

Author： DeConick   April;Shaw   Gregory;Turner   John D.  

Publisher： Brill‎

Publication year： 2013

E-ISBN: 9789004248526

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789004256293

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9789004256293

Subject： B92 宗教理论与概况

Keyword： 宗教

Language： ENG

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The essays in Practicing Gnosis demonstrate that the Gnostics were not necessarily trendy intellectuals seeking epistomological certainities. Instead, this book explores how Gnostics were seeking religious experiences that relied on practices including ritual, magic, liturgy, and theurgy. This book celebrates the career of Birger A. Pearson.

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Contents

Introduction

A TRIBUTE TO BIRGER A. PEARSON

George W.E. Nickelsburg. For Birger Pearson: A Scholar Who Both Studies and Embodies Syncretism

Gerald James Larson. Religionsgeschichtliche Schule, Religionswissenschaft, Piano, Oboe and Bourbon

Gregory Shaw. Birger Pearson: Scholar, Professor and Mentor

Birger Albert Pearson A Bibliography

SECTION ONE. INITIATORY PRACTICES

April D. DeConick. The Road for the Soul Is through the Planets: The Mysteries of the Ophians Mapped

Roger Beck. Ecstatic Religion in the Roman Cult of Mithras

Bas van Os. The Gospel of Philip as Gnostic Initiatory Discourse

Elliot R. Wolfson. Becoming Invisible: Rending the Veil and the Hermeneutic of Secrecy in the Gospel of Philip

Erin Evans. Ritual in the Second Book of Jeu

Nicola Denzey Lewis. Death on the Nile: Egyptian Codices, Gnosticism, and Early Christian Books of the Dead

SECTION TWO. RECURRENT PRACTICES

Einar Thomassen. Going to Church with the Valentinians

Madeleine Scopello. Practicing "Repentance" on the Path to Gnosis in Exegesis on the Soul

Edward P. Butler. Opening the Way of Writing: Semiotic Metaphysics in the Book of Thoth

Fernando Bermejo-Rubio. "I Worship and Glorify": Manichaean Liturgy and Piety in Kellis' Prayer of the Emanations

Jason David BeDuhn. The Manichaean Weekly Confession Ritual

Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley. Ritual Ingenuity in the Mandaean Scroll of Exalted Kingship

SECTION THREE. THERAPEUTIC PRACTICES

Naomi Janowitz. Natural, Magical, Scientific or Religious? A Guide to Theories of Healing

Grant Adamson. Astrological Medicine in Gnostic Traditions

Marvin Meyer. The Persistence of Ritual in the Magical Book of Mary and the Angels P. Heid. Inv. Kopt. 685

Rebecca Lesses. Image and Word: Performative Ritual and Material Culture in the Aramaic Incantation Bowls

SECTION FOUR. ECSTATIC PRACTICES

John D. Turner. From Baptismal Vision to Mystical Union with the One: The Case of the Sethian Gnostics

Niclas Förster. Marcosian Rituals for Prophecy and Apolytrosis

James R. Davila. Ritual in the Hekhalot Literature

SECTION FIVE. PHILOSOPHIC PRACTICES

Zeke Mazur. The Platonizing Sethian Gnostic Interpretation of Plato's Sophist

Michael A. Williams. Did Plotinus "Friends" Still Go to Church? Communal Rituals and Ascent Apocalypses

Kevin Corrigan. The Meaning of "One" Plurality and Unity in Plotinus and Later Neoplatonism

Gregory Shaw. Theurgy and the Platonist's Luminous Body

Index

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