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Gnosticism and later Platonism : themes, figures, and texts / John D. Turner and Ruth Majercik, editors.

Contributor(s): Turner, John Douglas | Majercik, Ruth Dorothy
Material type: TextTextSeries: Symposium series (Society of Biblical Literature): no. 12.Publisher: Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, [2000]Copyright date: ©2000Description: xiii, 338 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0884140350 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Gnosticism -- Congresses | Platonists -- Congresses | Neoplatonism -- CongressesDDC classification: 186/.4 LOC classification: B638 | .G587 2000Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [319]-338).
Contents:
The derivation of matter in monistic Gnosticism / Einar Thomassen -- Positive and negative matter in later Platonism: the uncovering of Plotinus's dialogue with the Gnostics / Kevin Corrigan -- After aporia: theurgy in later Platonism / Gregory Shaw -- Ritual in Gnosticism / John D. Turner -- Platonism and Gnosticism. The anonymous Commentary on the Parmenides: Middle or Neoplatonic? / Kevin Corrigan -- The setting of the Platonizing Sethian treatises in Middle Platonism -- John D. Turner -- Iamblichus, the Sethians, and Marsanes / John F. Finamore -- Ancient apophatic theology / John Peter Kenney -- Negative theologies and demiurgical myths in late antiquity / Michael A. Williams -- Aseity and connectedness in the Plotinian philosophy of providence / Frederick M. Schroeder.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [319]-338).

The derivation of matter in monistic Gnosticism / Einar Thomassen -- Positive and negative matter in later Platonism: the uncovering of Plotinus's dialogue with the Gnostics / Kevin Corrigan -- After aporia: theurgy in later Platonism / Gregory Shaw -- Ritual in Gnosticism / John D. Turner -- Platonism and Gnosticism. The anonymous Commentary on the Parmenides: Middle or Neoplatonic? / Kevin Corrigan -- The setting of the Platonizing Sethian treatises in Middle Platonism -- John D. Turner -- Iamblichus, the Sethians, and Marsanes / John F. Finamore -- Ancient apophatic theology / John Peter Kenney -- Negative theologies and demiurgical myths in late antiquity / Michael A. Williams -- Aseity and connectedness in the Plotinian philosophy of providence / Frederick M. Schroeder.

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