The mytho-empiricism of Gnosticism : triumph of the vanquished
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The mytho-empiricism of Gnosticism : triumph of the vanquished
Sussex Academic Press, 2003
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-314) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
A learning experience of the first order, encyclopedically rich in its coverage, Shoham puts myth, religion, literature and psychology into an easily understandable analytic perspective. This book traces the influence of Gnosis in European culture.
Table of Contents
- Contents: Foreword by Giovanni Filoramo
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction -- The Triumph of the Vanquished
- Part One: The Abyss -- The Ontological Split
- Jews and Greeks -- A Fateful Couple
- Christian and Jewish Gnosis
- Syncretism and Gnosis
- The Tresses of the Mind
- Sin
- Part Two: The Mythology of the Away and Beyond -- The Pardes: Forbidden Orchard
- Unio Mystica: Clandestine Complementarities
- The Avatar: Incarnation of Synchronic Transcendence in Time
- Notes
- Giora Shoham's Published Works and His Theory of Personality
- Index.
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