Gnosticism

Gnosticism is a blanket term for various mystical initiatory religions and sects, which were most prominent in the first few centuries CE. It is also applied to modern revivals of these sects and, sometimes, by analogy to all religious movements based on secret knowledge gnosis, thus leading to confusion.

References

Books

Primary sources

• {{Book reference | Author=Robinson, James | Title=The Nag Hammadi Library | Publisher= | Year=1978 | ID=ISBN 0-06-066934-9}} (549 pages)

Secondary sources

• {{Book reference | Author=Aland, Barbara | Title=Festschrift für Hans Jonas | Publisher=Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht | Year=1978 | ID=ISBN 3-525-58111-4}}
• {{Book reference | Author=Freke, Timothy and Gandy, Peter | Title=The Hermetica: The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs | Publisher=Tarcher | Year=1999 | ID=ISBN 0874779502 }}
• {{Book reference | Author=Freke, Timothy and Gandy, Peter | Title=Jesus and the Lost Goddess : The Secret Teachings of the Original Christians | Publisher=Three Rivers Press | Year=2002 | ID=ISBN 0-00-710071-X}}
• {{Book reference | Author=Haardt, Robert | Title=Die Gnosis: Wesen und Zeugnisse | Publisher=Müller | Year=1967 | ID= }} (352 pages)
• {{Book reference | Author=Hoeller, Stephan A. | Title=Gnosticism - New Light on the Ancient Tradition of Inner Knowing | Publisher= | Year=2002 | ID=ISBN 0-8356-0816-6}} (257 pages)
• {{Book reference | Author=Jonas, Hans | Title=Gnosis und spätantiker Geist vol. 2:1-2, Von der Mythologie zur mystischen Philosophie | Publisher= | Year= | ID=ISBN 3-525-53841-3}}
• {{Book reference | Author=King, Karen L. | Title=What is Gnosticism? | Publisher=Harvard University Press | Year=2003 | ID=ISBN 0-674-01071-X}} (343 pages)
• {{Book reference | Author=Klimkeit, Hans-Joachim | Title=Gnosis on the Silk Road: Gnostic Texts from Central Asia | Publisher=Harper, San Francisco | Year=1993 | ID=ISBN 0-06-064586-5}}
• {{Book reference | Author=Layton, Bentley, edited by L. Michael White, O. Larry Yarbrough | Title=Prolegomena to the study of ancient gnosticism (in The Social World of the First Christians: Essays in Honor of Wayne A. Meeks) | Publisher=Fortress Press, Minneapolis | Year=1995 | ID=ISBN 0800625854}}
• {{Book reference | Author=Longfellow, Ki | Title=The Secret Magdalene | Publisher= | Year=2005 | ID=ISBN 0-9759255-3-9}} (458 pages)
• {{Book reference | Author=Pagels, Elaine | Title=The Gnostic Gospels | Publisher= | Year=1979 | ID=ISBN 0679724532}} (182 pages)
• {{Book reference | Author=Pagels, Elaine | Title=The Johannine Gospel in Gnostic Exegesis | Publisher= | Year=1989 | ID=ISBN 1555403344}} (128 pages)
• {{Book reference | Author=Williams,Michael | Title=Rethinking Gnosticism: An Argument for Dismantling a Dubious Category | Publisher=Princeton University Press | Year=1996 | ID=ISBN 0691011273 }}

Audio Lectures

• BC Recordings - Offers an excellent and extensive collecton of downloadable MP3 lecture by Stephan A. Hoeller on Gnosticism.

Videos

• The Naked Truth - Exposing the Deceptions About the Origins of Modern Religions (1995) ASIN: 1568890060