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The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies
Harvey, Susan Ashbrook Professor of Religious Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI
Hunter, David G. Cottrill-Rolfes Professor of Catholic Studies at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
Print publication date: 2008 (this edition) Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-927156-6
Published to Oxford Handbooks Online: September 2009




10 ‘Gnosticism’
doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199271566.003.0011

Antti Marjanen
Abstract: Approaches to Gnosticism – Sources – Challenges for the Study of ‘Gnosticism’

Keywords: Christ, Christian,

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Antti Marjanen is Docent of New Testament Studies at the University of Helsinki.

 
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Full Book Contents
Introduction
I Prolegomena
1 From Patristics to Early Christian Studies
2 Literature, Patristics, Early Christian Writing
3 Which Early Christianity?
II Evidence: Material And Textual
4 Material Evidence (1): Archaeology
5 Material Evidence (2): Visual Culture
6 Epigraphy
7 Palaeography and Codicology
III Identities
8 Jews and Christians
9 Pagans and Christians
10 ‘Gnosticism’
11 Manichaeism
12 Arius and Arians
13 Pelagius and Pelagians
IV Regions
14 The West (1): Italy, Gaul, and Spain
15 The West (2): North Africa
16 The East (1): Greece and Asia Minor
17 The East (2): Egypt and Palestine
18 The East (3): Syria and Mesopotamia
V Structures And Authorities
19 Clergy and Laity
20 The Biblical Canon
21 Creeds, Councils, and Canons
22 Church and Empire
23 Women and Gender
24 Monasticism
VI Expressions of Christian Culture
25 Early Christian Apocryphal Literature
26 Apologetics
27 Homiletics
28 Early Christian Historians and Historiography
29 Martyr Passions and Hagiography
30 Poetry and Hymnography (1): Christian Latin Poetry
31 Poetry and Hymnography (2): The Greek World
32 Poetry and Hymnography (3): Syriac
33 Christian Philosophy
VII Ritual, Piety, and Practice
34 Christian Initiation
35 Eucharistic Liturgy
36 Prayer
37 Asceticism
38 Penance
39 Martyrdom and the Cult of the Saints
40 Pilgrimage
VIII Theological Themes
41 Interpretation of Scripture
42 Doctrine of God
43 Christ and Christologies
44 Doctrine of Creation
45 Early Christian Ethics
46 Instrumenta Studiorum: Tools of the Trade
Index
 
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