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Neoplatonism and gnosticism / Richard T. Wallis, editor, Jay Bregman, associate editor

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Neoplatonism ; v. 6Publication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, c1992Description: xi, 531 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0791413373
  • 0791413381
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • ARCH YNDC 186.4 W214N
LOC classification:
  • B517 .N455 1992
Contents:
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
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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

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