TY - BOOK AU - Wallis,Richard T. AU - Bregman,Jay ED - International Society for Neoplatonic Studies ED - International Conference on Neoplatonism and Gnosticism TI - Neoplatonism and gnosticism SN - 0791413373 AV - B517 .N455 1992 U1 - ARCH YNDC 186.4 W214N PY - 1992/// CY - Albany PB - State University of New York Press KW - Neoplatonism KW - Congresses KW - Gnosticism N1 - Papers presented at the 6th international conference of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies, entitled International Conference on Neoplatonism and Gnosticism, held at University of Oklahoma, Mar. 18-21, 1984; Includes bibliographical references and index; Theourgia - demiourgia : a controversial issue in Hellenistic thought and religion / John P. Anton -- Dualism : Platonic, Gnostic, and Christian / A. H. Armstrong -- The s̀econd God' in Gnosticism and Plotinus's anti-Gnostic Polemic, translated from Spanish by Winifred T. Slater / Francisco Garcia Bazan -- Synesius, the Hermaetica and Gnosis / Jay Bregman -- Pleroma and Noetic cosmos : a comparative study / John M. Dillon -- Plotinus's anti-Gnostic Polemic and Porphyry's Against the Christians / Christos Evangeliou -- Theological doctrines of the Latin Asclepius / Stephen Gersh -- Negative theology in Gnosticism and Neoplatonism / Curits L. Hancock -- The Platonism of the Tripartite Tractate (NH I, 5) / John Peter Kenney -- The Noetic triad in Plotinus, Marius Victorinus, and Augustine / Peter Manchester -- 'Plenty sleeps there' : the myth of Eros and psyche in Plotinus and Gnosticism / Patricia Cox Miller -- 'The name of the father is the son' (Gospel of Truth 38) / Raoul Mortley -- Theurgic tendencies in Gnosticism and Iamblichus's conception of theurgy / Birger A. Pearson; Beauty, number, and loss of order in the Gnostic cosmos / Pheme Perkins -- Theories of procession in Plotinus and the Gnostics / Jean Pepin -- Titus of Bostra and Alexander of Lycopolis : a Christian and a Platonic refutation of Manichaean dualism / Gedaliahu G. Stroumsa -- Le nombre et son ombre (resume) / Ara Alexandru Sismanian -- Mani's twin and Plotinus : questions of 'self' / Leo Sweeney, S.J. -- Gnosticism and Platonism : the Platonizing Sethian texts from Nag Hammadi in their relations to later Platonic literature / John D. Turner -- Soul and Nous in Plotinus, Numenius and Gnosticism / Richard T. Wallis -- Higher providence, lower providences and fate in Gnosticism and Middle Platonism / Michael A. Williams ER -