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1 online resource (x, 311 pages) |
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Intro -- Gnostic Return in Modernity -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Baurian Model of Gnostic Return and Its Challenges -- 1. Redeeming and Reconstructing Baur's Model of Gnostic Return -- Summary -- 2. Baurian Gnostic Genealogical Model and Its Contestation -- 2.1. Historicist Challenge: Hans Blumenberg and Epochal Shift -- 2.2. Agon between Gnostic Baurian and Non-Gnostic Genealogies -- Summary -- Part II. Toward Valentinian Narrative Grammar -- 3. Classical Valentinian Narratives: Variety and Unity -- 3.1. Ptolemy's Valentinian Gnostic System |
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3.2. The Gospel of Truth -- 3.3. The Tripartite Tractate -- Summary -- 4. Valentinian Narrative Grammar: Irenaean Gestures and the Phenomenon of Valentinian Enlisting -- 4.1. The Contributions of Irenaeus: Developing the Grammatical Hints -- 4.2. Valentinianism's Relation to Other Narrative Discourses -- 5. Genealogical Capability of Valentinian Narrative Grammar -- 5.1. Justifying the Protestant Identification of the Baurian Line -- 5.2. Baurian Line and Rule-Governed Deformation of Classical Valentinian Genres -- 5.3. Valentinian Enlisting of Non-Valentinian Narrative Discourses -- Summary |
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Conclusion -- Notes -- Introduction -- Part I -- Part II -- Index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-294) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Baur, Ferdinand Christian. swd |
| Subject |
Gnosticism -- History
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RELIGION -- Gnosticism.
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Gnosticism
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Geschichte
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Gnosis
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Gnosticisme -- Histoire.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
079145021X |
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9780791450215 |
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0791450228 |
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9780791450222 |
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0791490378 |
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9780791490372 |
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