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  1. 1. Rethinking the Gospel of Truth : A Study of its Eastern Valentinian Setting

    Författare :Jörgen Magnusson; Gabriella Gustafsson; Anders Hultgård; Birger Pearson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Gospel of Truth; Nag Hammadi; Valentinianism; Gnostic; Gnosticism; early Christianity; Coptic; history of religions; text linguistics; late Antiquity; History of religion; Religionshistoria;

    Sammanfattning : Already in the second century, the Church Father Irenaeus warned against reading the Gospel of Truth that was used among the so-called Valentinians. For more than one and a half millennium GospTruth was lost until in the 1950s a Coptic text was discovered that could be a translation of that work both loved and hated. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Flannery O'Connor's View of the Modern Alienation from Sacramental Religion

    Författare :Inger B Törnqvist; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; secular humanism; Social Darwinism; Progressivism; Southern literature; natural theology; Southern Protestant fundamentalism; “Americanism Debate“; modern gnosticism; gnostic; Jansenism; Neoscholasticism; American Catholicism; Sacramental religion; O’Connor; Joyce; psychology; sociology; History of the Christian church; Kristna kyrkans historia;

    Sammanfattning : Mary Flannery O’Connor (1925-64) was born in Savannah, Georgia as the only child of the American Irish Catholics Edward Francis O’Connor, Jr. and Regina Cline O’Connor. In 1952 her first novel Wise Blood, in 1955 the short story collection A Good Man Is Hard to Find, and in 1960 her second novel, The Violent Bear It Away were published. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Narrative ethics and intuition of the infinite : E. L. Doctorow's gnostic hope for the postmodern era

    Författare :Catharine Bergström Walker; Högskolan Väst; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Doctorow; E. L.; Etik i litteraturen; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; English; Engelska;

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  5. 4. Den kristna gnosticismens återkomst : ett studium av Ulf Ekmans teologi

    Författare :Kent Gunnarsson; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religion; Modern gnosticism; gnostic grammar; the faith movement; christian gnosticism; cultural context; the matrix; loss of transcendence; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Religion Theology; Religionsvetenskap Teologi;

    Sammanfattning : The thesis, The Return of Christian Gnosticism. An Investigation of the Theology of Ulf Ekman, is divided into two main sections. In the first section I address the question of what can be seen as characteristic of modern Gnosticism. LÄS MER

  7. 5. The Spirit of Revolt : Nikolai Berdiaev's Existential Gnosticism

    Författare :Fabian Linde; Per-Arne Bodin; Elena Namli; Irene Masing-Delic; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Russian philosophy; Berdyaev; Berdiaev; Hans Jonas; Russian religious philosophy; gnosticism; gnosis; existentialism; gnostic return; Slavic languages; Slaviska språk; slaviska språk; Slavic Languages;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis is a study of the Russian religious philosopher Nikolai Berdiaev (1874-1948). The aim of the thesis is to re-examine the alleged gnostic subtext in Berdiaev’s thought by exploring a number of interrelated motifs in his world outlook, teaching on man and theory of knowledge. LÄS MER