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Zusatztext "I agree with the blurbs on the back of this book. Maurice Wiles finds that the Gnostics presented here are neither bizarre eccentrics nor evil enemies of the Christianity, but rather credible participants in ancient dialogue about meaningful Christiantiy. Gerd Theissen lauds the book as an introduction to an ancient movement and a balanced summary of recent scholarship on that movement. I too recomment this book to anyone interested in early Christian history and ancient intellectual history."-Catholic Book Reviews Online, January 2004 Informationen zum Autor Christoph Markschies is Professor of Early Church History and President of Humboldt University Berlin. Zusammenfassung Defining the term Gnosis and its relationship to Gnosticism, this book indicates why Gnosis may be preferable and sketches out the main problems. It then treats the sources, both those in the church fathers and heresiologists, and the more recent Nag Hammadi finds. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Definition of Gnosis, its relationship to 'Gnosticism'.Chapter II: The sources, ancient authors (from Irenaeus to Epiphanius), heresologists (Justin and Tertullian), Gnostic original text (the Nag Hammadi material) and non-'Gnostic' texts (the Hermetic Writings and the Hekhalot literature).Chapter III: Early forms of 'Gnosis' in antiquity: Jewish, New Testament, and early representatives (Simon Magus and Basilides).Chapter IV: Marcion and the Marcionites, Valentinus and Valentinians and the 'Barbelo Gnostics'.Chapter V: Manichaeism as the culmination and end-point of Gnosis.Chapter VI: Ancient communities of 'Gnostics'.Chapter VII: 'Gnosis' in antiquity and the present.Index
