(Ebook) Gnosticism and Later Platonism Themes Figures and Texts 3rd Edition by John D Turner, Ruth Dorothy Majercik ISBN 9780884140351 0884140350

(Ebook) Gnosticism and Later Platonism Themes Figures and Texts 3rd Edition by John D Turner, Ruth Dorothy Majercik ISBN 9780884140351 0884140350

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ISBN 10: 0884140350 
ISBN 13: 9780884140351
Author: John D Turner, Ruth Dorothy Majercik

"Mystery religions of the Greco-Roman world, a preliminary bibliography of secondary literature in English, compiled by Eldon J. Epp": p. 355-374; "Text editions used for the translations": p. 375-378.

(Ebook) Gnosticism and Later Platonism Themes Figures and Texts 3rd Edition Table of contents:

1. Positive and Negative Matter in Platonism

2. The Ancient Philosophy and the Inner Level of Argumentation in Enn. 2.4 [12]

3. The Generation of Matter and Some Difficult Passages in the Enneads: A Hidden Dialogue with the Gnostics?

4. The Großschrift: Ancient Philosophy (Aristotle), Productive Contemplation, and the Dialogue with the Gnostics

5. Conclusion

Gregory Shaw: After Aporia: Theurgy in Later Platonism

1. The Platonic Background

2. The Puzzle of Plotinus

3. Iamblichean Paideia: Aporia to Theourgia

4. Conclusion

John D. Turner: Ritual in Gnosticism

1. Baptism

2. Investiture

3. Chrismation

4. Sacral Meal

5. Sacral Marriage

6. Sexual Sacramentalism

7. Verbal Performances

8. Ascensional and Contemplative Practices

9. Concluding Observations

Kevin Corrigan: Platonism and Gnosticism. The Anonymous Commentary on the Parmenides: Middle or Neoplatonic?

1. The Anonymous Commentary on the Parmenides

2. Plotinus and the Sethian Gnostic Texts

Appendices:

• I. The Theses of Pierre Hadot on the Anonymous Parmenides Commentary and Porphyry

• II. Intellectual Participation in the Anonymous Parmenides Commentary, Plotinus (and Numenius and Amelius), but Not in Porphyry

• III. Did the Existence-Life-Mind Triad Originate with Porphyry?

• IV. The Pre-Plotinian Character of the Gnostic Triads

• V. Numenius and Amelius

• VI. Plotinus’s Independence from Zostrianos and Allogenes

3. The Position of the Platonizing Treatises within Sethianism

4. The Triadic Metaphysics of the Platonizing Sethian Treatises

5. The Position of the Platonizing Sethian Treatises in the Platonic Tradition

6. The Platonizing Sethian Treatises As Post-Porphyrian: Abramowski and Majercik

7. The Platonizing Sethian Treatises Are Middle Platonic: Corrigan contra Majercik

8. The Parmenides Commentary Is Anonymous and Middle Platonic: Corrigan contra Hadot

9. Plotinus’s Antignostic Großschrift Presupposes the Platonizing Sethian Treatises

10. Results for the Historical Setting of the Parmenides Commentary, Zostrianos, and Allogenes

11. Life: A Prefigurative Intelligible Biology and the Gnostic Contribution

John F. Finamore: Iamblichus, the Sethians, and Marsanes

1. The System of Iamblichus

2. The System of Allogenes

3. The System of Zostrianos

4. The System of the Three Steles of Seth

5. Comparison of the Sethian Systems

6. The System of Marsanes

7. Iamblichus and Marsanes

8. Conclusion

Metaphysical Schemata

John Peter Kenney: Ancient Apophatic Theology

1. Apophasis and Transcendence

2. Apophatic and Kataphatic Theology

3. Hellenic Theology

4. Soteriology and Sacred Hierarchy

5. Noetic Postscript

6. Introduction

7. Absence/Presence of Negative Theological Discourse

8. Negative Theologies: Patterns

9. Negative Theologies and Knowledge of God

10. Negative Theologies and Sensibility about the Cosmos

11. Summary and Conclusions

12. Introduction

13. Hierarchy and Connectedness

14. Providence and Human Salvation

15. Some Thoughts about Plotinian Providence and Gnosis

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