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S'està carregant… Gnosticism: The Path of Inner Knowledgede Martin Seymour-Smith
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. A nice, quick gift book. About as much substance as one could ask for in a coffee table text. ( ) GNOSTICISM:THE PATH OF INNER KNOWLEDGE Gnosticism, the school of spiritual philosophy that flourished throughout the Roman world in the first two centuries after Christ, was Christianity's earliest rival. It focused not on belief, good deeds and contrition, but on the attainment of gnosis (knowledge, or an intuition of the truth) which brings salvation rom ignorance. Gnostic rites were practiced in secret, particularly after Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire. The radical dualism of the Gnostic universe, in which good and evil are co-eternal, was anathema to the early Church, which persecuted it relentlessly for over a thousand years. However, the symbolic and psychological truths of Gnosticism continued to be recognized down the centuries, and had a profound influence on many of the great creative writers and thinkers of Western culture. Gnosticism poses burning questions, the answers to which are very relevant to our day It resonates with the idea of the psyche, with Jung's concept of the collective unconscious, and with the post-war struggle for meaning in existential philosophy. Gnostic thinking underlies much of modern mysticism, and offers contemporary seekers a living path to enlightenment Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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"Gnosticism, the school of spiritual philosophy that flourished throughout the Roman world in the first two centuries after Christ, was Christianity's earliest rival. It focused not on belief, good deeds and contrition, but on the attainment of gnosis (knowledge, or an intuition of the truth) which brings salvation from ignorance." "Gnostic rites were practiced in secret, particularly after Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire. The radical dualism of the Gnostic universe, in which good and evil are co-eternal, was anathema to the early Church, which persecuted it relentlessly for over a thousand years. However, the symbolic and psychological truths of Gnosticism continued to be recognized down the centuries, and had a profound influence on many of the great creative writers and thinkers of Western culture." "Gnosticism poses burning questions, the answers to which are very relevant to our day. It resonates with the idea of the psyche, with Jung's concept of the collective unconscious, and with the post-war struggle for meaning in existential philosophy. Gnostic thinking underlies much of modern mysticism, and offers contemporary seekers a living path to enlightenment."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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