The tree of gnosis : gnostic mythology from early Christianity to modern nihilism /

Culianu, Ioan P,

The tree of gnosis : gnostic mythology from early Christianity to modern nihilism / Ioan P. Couliano ; translated into English by H.S. Wiesner and the author. - first HarperCollins edition. - [San Francisco] : HarperSanFrancisco, (c)1992. - xviii, 296 pages ; 25 cm.

Rev. translation of: Les gnoses dualistes d'Occident.



Dualism : a chronology -- Myths about Gnosticism : an introduction -- Gnostic myth 1 : fallen wisdom -- Gnostic myth 2 : the ignorant demiurge -- The abolition of the law and of the actual father : Marcion of Sinope -- Manichaean myth -- Paulicianism or popular Marcionism -- Bogomilism : a pseudodualism -- The two religions of the Cathars -- The tree of Gnosis -- Modern nihilism.



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Philosophy-Ancient
Gnosticism--History.

B638 / .T744 1992 B638