Gnostilaisuuden perusteokset
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Nykyään "gnostilaisuutena" esitetään näkemyksiä jotka mielestäni eivät kuvasta oikeaa gnostilaisuutta. Gnostilaisuuden perusteoksia on yhä edelleen saatavilla. Kirjoja voi ihmetellä The Gnostic Society Libraryn luettelossa:
A Gnostic Reading List
The reading list is divided into four sections:
Introductory Readings
Stephan A. Hoeller, Gnosticism: New Light on the Ancient Tradition of Inner Knowing (Quest Books, 2002)
There has long been need for a comprehensive introductory guide to the Gnostic tradition. Hoeller supplies just such a book with this new offering. This delightful study gives clear voice to the essential message of Gnosticism; it is an invaluable introduction to the history and import of Gnosticism in the Western tradition.
Stuart Holroyd, The Elements of Gnosticism, (Shaftesbury, Dorset, England and Rockport, MA: Element Books, 1994).
An excellent, brief introduction to the teachings, history and literature of Gnosticism. The approach is sympathetic with emphasis on the relevance of Gnosticism for today. (Distributed through Penguin Books in the USA.)
jne..
Intermediate Readings
Tobias Churton, The Gnostics (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987). (Currently out-of-print )
A comprehensive, well researched and objective study, encompassing Gnostic teachings, and literature. Includes a useful chronological table. (This book was originally written to accompany a television documentary on "The Gnostics", produced by in Great Britain by Boarder Television in 1987.)
John Dart, The Laughing Saviour: The Discovery and Significance of the Nag Hammadi Gnostic Library (New York: Harper & Row, 1976). (Currently out-of-print)
Journalistic, slightly superficial sampling of the Nag Hammadi scriptures with mildly informative contextual information.
Jean Doresse, The Secret Books of the Egyptian Gnostic: An Introduction to the Gnostic Coptic Manuscripts Discovered at Chenoboskion (New York: Viking Press, 1960).
Personal account by one of the original discoverers of the Nag Hammadi scriptures. Includes an early translation of the Gospel of Thomas. The author manifests an anti-Gnostic bias.
jne..
Advanced Readings
E. C. Blackman, Marcion and His Influence, (London: APGK, 1948; reprinted New York: Ames Press, 1978). (Currently out-of-print)
Classic study of Marcion's teachings and their impact on various disciplines, including Biblical Criticism. Arguably the most complete work on Marcion yet written.
Ioan P. Couliano, The Tree of Gnosis: Gnostic Mythology from Early Christianity to Modern Nihilism (San Francisco: Harper,1990). (Currently out-of-print)
Highly imaginative but somewhat immature study of the Gnostic tradition, with a strong historical emphasis. Creative but turgid.
Giovanni Filoramo, A History of Gnosticism (Oxford and Cambridge, Mass.: Basil Blackwell, 1990). (Currently out-of-print)
Excellent and sympathetic study of Gnosticism, including insightful exegeses of Gnostic scriptures. One of the best scholarly works available.
jne..
Editions of Gnostic Scriptures
(Editor unnamed), The Gospel According to Thomas: with complimentary texts (Santa Barbara: Concord Grove Press, 1983). (Currently out-of-print)
An elegant translation of the Gospel of Thomas, and of the Apocryphon of John, the Gospel of Truth, and the Hymn of the Pearl, along with a useful introduction representing a modern Theosophical perspective.
Iain Gardner, The Kephalaia of the Teacher: The Edited Coptic Manichaean Texts in Translation with Commentary (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1995).
Contains one of the best available and detailed introductory discussions of Manichaeism, along with an excellent translation of the Kephalaia, a collection of the "oral teachings of Mani to his disciples".
Werner Foerster, ed., Gnosis, A Selection of Gnostic Texts: II. Coptic and Mandean Sources (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974). (Currently out-of-print)
The second part (pp. 125-296) contains a most valuable selection of writings of the Mandeans of Iraq. This volume is easier to obtain that other books on the Mandaeans..
jne..
Out of print -teoksia on saatavilla käytettyinä.
täydellinen luettelo http://www.gnosis.org/readlist.htm
A Gnostic Reading List
The reading list is divided into four sections:
Introductory Readings
Stephan A. Hoeller, Gnosticism: New Light on the Ancient Tradition of Inner Knowing (Quest Books, 2002)
There has long been need for a comprehensive introductory guide to the Gnostic tradition. Hoeller supplies just such a book with this new offering. This delightful study gives clear voice to the essential message of Gnosticism; it is an invaluable introduction to the history and import of Gnosticism in the Western tradition.
Stuart Holroyd, The Elements of Gnosticism, (Shaftesbury, Dorset, England and Rockport, MA: Element Books, 1994).
An excellent, brief introduction to the teachings, history and literature of Gnosticism. The approach is sympathetic with emphasis on the relevance of Gnosticism for today. (Distributed through Penguin Books in the USA.)
jne..
Intermediate Readings
Tobias Churton, The Gnostics (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987). (Currently out-of-print )
A comprehensive, well researched and objective study, encompassing Gnostic teachings, and literature. Includes a useful chronological table. (This book was originally written to accompany a television documentary on "The Gnostics", produced by in Great Britain by Boarder Television in 1987.)
John Dart, The Laughing Saviour: The Discovery and Significance of the Nag Hammadi Gnostic Library (New York: Harper & Row, 1976). (Currently out-of-print)
Journalistic, slightly superficial sampling of the Nag Hammadi scriptures with mildly informative contextual information.
Jean Doresse, The Secret Books of the Egyptian Gnostic: An Introduction to the Gnostic Coptic Manuscripts Discovered at Chenoboskion (New York: Viking Press, 1960).
Personal account by one of the original discoverers of the Nag Hammadi scriptures. Includes an early translation of the Gospel of Thomas. The author manifests an anti-Gnostic bias.
jne..
Advanced Readings
E. C. Blackman, Marcion and His Influence, (London: APGK, 1948; reprinted New York: Ames Press, 1978). (Currently out-of-print)
Classic study of Marcion's teachings and their impact on various disciplines, including Biblical Criticism. Arguably the most complete work on Marcion yet written.
Ioan P. Couliano, The Tree of Gnosis: Gnostic Mythology from Early Christianity to Modern Nihilism (San Francisco: Harper,1990). (Currently out-of-print)
Highly imaginative but somewhat immature study of the Gnostic tradition, with a strong historical emphasis. Creative but turgid.
Giovanni Filoramo, A History of Gnosticism (Oxford and Cambridge, Mass.: Basil Blackwell, 1990). (Currently out-of-print)
Excellent and sympathetic study of Gnosticism, including insightful exegeses of Gnostic scriptures. One of the best scholarly works available.
jne..
Editions of Gnostic Scriptures
(Editor unnamed), The Gospel According to Thomas: with complimentary texts (Santa Barbara: Concord Grove Press, 1983). (Currently out-of-print)
An elegant translation of the Gospel of Thomas, and of the Apocryphon of John, the Gospel of Truth, and the Hymn of the Pearl, along with a useful introduction representing a modern Theosophical perspective.
Iain Gardner, The Kephalaia of the Teacher: The Edited Coptic Manichaean Texts in Translation with Commentary (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1995).
Contains one of the best available and detailed introductory discussions of Manichaeism, along with an excellent translation of the Kephalaia, a collection of the "oral teachings of Mani to his disciples".
Werner Foerster, ed., Gnosis, A Selection of Gnostic Texts: II. Coptic and Mandean Sources (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974). (Currently out-of-print)
The second part (pp. 125-296) contains a most valuable selection of writings of the Mandeans of Iraq. This volume is easier to obtain that other books on the Mandaeans..
jne..
Out of print -teoksia on saatavilla käytettyinä.
täydellinen luettelo http://www.gnosis.org/readlist.htm