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Date: Wed, 31 Aug 1994 21:33:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: IRWINL@cofc.edu
Subject: Gnostic Theology
Organization: College of Charleston
Reply-To: alexandria@world.std.com

Ken:

Are you aware of any works developing a generalized gnostic "theological" (s/b soteriological if I understand the words correctly) theory of religion?

Zos:

Here are a few suggestions, all of which share interesting perspectives on issues of relating gnosticism to the contemporary world. None of them is a full blown "theological" treatment of gnostic hermeneutics for the contemporary gnostic...though many relevant themes are addressed. A note of regard--at least two of the authors are members of this list. Hope this helps...what i imagine you really want has not been written yet. I omit the many, many books on the subject of gnosticism in the ancient and early Christian world.

GNOSTICISM IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD:

  1. Avens, Roberts, 1923- The new gnosis : Heidegger, Hillman, and angels / Dallas, Tex. : Spring Publications, c1984. 154 p., 1 p. ; 21 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: B3279.H49 A94 1984
  2. Berman, Morris, 1944- Coming to our senses : body and spirit in the hidden history of the West / Bantam ed. New York : Bantam, 1990. 425 p.
  3. Culianu, Ioan P. The tree of gnosis : gnostic mythology from early Christianity to modern nihilism / 1st HarperCollins ed. San Francisco : HarperSanFrancisco, 1992. xviii, 296 p. ; 25 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: B638 .C8513 1991
  4. Fideler, David R., 1961- Jesus Christ, sun of God : ancient cosmology and early Christian symbolism / Wheaton, IL : Quest Books, 1993.
  5. Filoramo, Giovanni. A history of Gnosticism / Oxford, UK ; Cambridge, Mass., USA : B. Blackwell, 1990. xxi, 269 p. ; 24 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BT1390 .F5513 199039.
  6. Gruenwald, Ithamar. From apocalypticism to Gnosticism : studies in apocalypticism, Merkavah mysticism, and Gnosticism / Frankfurt am Main ; New York : P. Lang, c1988. vii, 294 p. ; 21 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BS1705 .G78 1988
  7. Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961. The Gnostic Jung / Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1992. vii, 259 p. ; 22 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BF109.J8 A25 1992
  8. Magne, Jean. From Christianity to gnosis and from gnosis to Christianity : an itinerary through the texts to and from the Tree of paradise / Atlanta, Ga. : Scholars Press, c1993. xii, 240 p. ; 24 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BR129 .M3413 1993
  9. Merkur, Daniel. Gnosis : an esoteric tradition of mystical visions and unions / Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, c1993. x, 387 p. ; 24 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BF1101 .M47 1993
  10. Needleman, Jacob, comp. The sword of gnosis: metaphysics, cosmology, tradition, symbolism; Baltimore, Penguin Books 1974 464 p. illus. 18 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BL50 .N4
  11. Rossner, John. The primordial tradition in contemporary experience / Lanham, MD : University Press of America, c1983- v. <2-3 > : ill. ; 29 cm. LC CALL NUMBER: BF1023 .R67 1983 vol. 2
  12. Shoham, S. Giora, 1929- The bridge to nothingness : gnosis, kabala, existentialism, and the transcendental predicament of man / Rutherford : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London : AssociatedUniversity Presses, c1992. p. cm.
  13. Versluis, Arthur, 1959- Theosophia : hidden dimensions of Christianity / Hudson, NY : Lindisfarne Press, c1993.
Zos
(irwin@ashley.cofc.edu)

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