...Emilie Kutash Heidegger Husserl Jonas environmental ethics medical ethics German culture Memoirs Gnosticism Holocaust philosophical biology “Ever since the Nazi Holocaust it is Western civilization that is on trial.” ¹ Emil Fackenheim In 1962, Hans Jonas (1903-1993) added...

... and certainly not Hollywood celebrities. Dianetics The Modern Science of Mental Health Scientology Scientologists on works by L Ron Hubbard Buddhism Dianetics The Original Thesis E Meter electropsychometer esotericism gnosticism past lives Western Esotericism workability Eight Dynamics Eighth...

..., and gnosticism. The chapter argues in the end for an understanding of a distinctively contemporary form of modern Western religiosity called “postperennialism.” The Matrix serves as a vehicle for both understanding and critiquing postperennialism. The analysis contained in the chapter serves...

... was especially emphasized in theological reflections upon the experience of martyrdom. Let us turn our attention to a curious feature of certain brands of Gnostic theology that put substantial limitations upon their use of the term ‘impassible’ with reference to the divine realm. Gnosticism, particularly...

... and given the kind of attributes God has, God can create the world ex nihilo. The doctrine of creation ex nihilo was hammered out in the patristic period in opposition to Gnosticism. This doctrine is compatible with the findings of science, but theology should not adopt...

... contexts. The initial three figures have, in the history of interpretation, been demonized as cosmic rebels. They include the primal human in Ezekiel 28, Lucifer (or Helel) in Isaiah 14, and Yaldabaoth in gnostic mythology. By contrast, the final three figures have served as heroes and positive models...

... side and various forms of paganism and Gnosticism on the other. The idea of the Catholic church seeks to find a middle way between the extremes, which can only be accomplished by lengthy struggles. Baur emphasizes these conflicts and the contribution of heresy to doctrinal formulation. Major thinkers...

...” and is based on the “denial of reality.” Renato Curcio, Alberto Franceschini, Margherita Cagol, Mario Moretti, Mario Galesi, and Nadia Desdemona Lioce, to cite just some of the more famous names, are all part of a shared history: the history of revolutionary gnosticism and of the pedagogy of intolerance...

... Muslim musicians Ottoman Turkish musicians Philosophy Shiloah Amnon Virtuosity Young Turk Revolution Charity Meknes Poverty commensality mutuality interpenetration cohabitation Gnosticism Quran Halakha pharmacopoeias mathematics Maccams charity The single and collaborative leading...

... fathers Gnosticism mysticism Dualism Ugo Bianchi Qumran Gnosticism Satan Zoroastrianism structural anthropology demiurge The problem of the nature and dynamics of the interrelations between traditions of religious dualism and Judaism, Christianity, and Islam is of major importance...

... the divine and the earthly, in the interests of imparting to earthly reality a divine perfection. The author develops his view that Russian religious philosophy has always inclined towards the Gnostic version of Christianity, which denies the idea of the Fall and admits that the individual, as well...

.... Vico and Bruno also appear in the context of an anti-gnostic attitude which remains rooted in the physical world. Bruno used his theory of the coincidence of opposites to synthesize the corporeal and the spiritual. This chapter also examines the Wake’s parody of Saint Paul’s notion of the two Adams...

...Chapter 3 discusses Crumb’s illustrations to the life and work of Philip K. Dick, beginning with an exploration of Crumb’s connections to the California counterculture and its fascination with occult and Gnostic philosophies. Crumb began to turn increasingly towards mysticism in his artwork...

... apocryphal non canonical Eusebius Irenaeus Serapion Valentinus docetism Nag Hammadi Gnosticism Protevangelium of James Rome Valentianism Justin Martyr Sethianism Ophites Plato Gospel of Judas Gospel of the Savior Gospel of Thomas historical Jesus Jesus Seminar Q Docetism Gnosticism...

...Although ancient Gnosticism and modern fiction seem to be worlds apart, recent novels featuring Mary Magdalene as protagonist have taken advantage of the easy availability of English translations of ancient esoteric documents in their portrayals of her character. The chapter first provides a brief...

... different contemporaries, Irenaeus of Lyons and Clement of Alexandria, as they sought to wrest the Pauline text away from so-called Gnostic opponents. But rather than solving the problem, Irenaeus and Clement only intensified the theological and anthropological issues generated by Paul’s troublesome...

... Eve God gods Hermes Trismegistus Hermetics humans pagan Gnosticism Seth Sethians stories Hermes judgment Osiris otherworld journeys Thoth transfiguration Book of the Dead Captain America fictional character death Egyptian Book of the Dead Spiderman fictional character Doctor...

... of the ancient Mediterranean world: Inanna/Ishtar, Anat, Isis, and Demeter; it explores how goddesses and female symbols of the divine functioned in two major movements that sought religious salvation in the context of Greco-Roman society, the mystery religions and gnosticism; it traces female symbols in early...

...This chapter attempts to interpret the fate of Gnosticism in Egypt by investigating places where texts were found and the historical material available. It first presents a list of texts of a Gnostic nature or those that were found in the same corpus, followed by a review of historical events...

... some essential principles of Christian tradition, most importantly the inseparability of theology and spirituality in an anti-Gnostic key. In the second instance, the theme of theological aesthetics is treated, initially by placing Balthasar’s conception of a true seeing of natural forms against...