Gnostic New Age - April D. DeConick
How a Countercultural Spirituality Revolutionized Religion from Antiquity to Today
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Gnosticism is a countercultural spirituality that forever changed the practice of Christianity. Before it emerged in the second century, passage to the afterlife required obedience to God and king. Gnosticism proposed that human beings were manifestations of the divine, unsettling the hierarchical foundations of the ancient world. Subversive and revolutionary, Gnostics taught that prayer and mediation could bring human beings into an ecstatic spiritual union with a transcendent deity. This mystical strain a...
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2019 Uitgever: Columbia University Press 392 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0231170777 ISBN-13: 9780231170772Koop dit boek tweedehands
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