The Tyranny of Time?

Time, World, and Knowledge in Second-Century Christian and Christian-Gnostic Texts
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-11-162031-2
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 514 g

Reihe: ISSN

In a day fascinated with questions of historiography and with explicating a distinctive Christian philosophy of time and history, Henri-Charles Puech’s (1950s) work on Gnosis and time found an audience. Studying four second-century texts he marked as Gnostic, he argued for the Gnostic, anti-cosmic, anti-historical pessimism about existence within the tyrannical temporal world of bondage and error. Bliss and truth were otherworldly and atemporal. This book reassesses Puech’s argument by analysis of the writings undergirding his sample and a wide array of second-century Christian and Gnostic-Christian texts that display not the Gnostic view, as if there were one, but a broader second-century theological discussion regarding time, world and knowledge manifesting a spectrum of perspectives. A review of past and present scholarly discourse that evoked discussions of Gnosticism and anti-cosmism, and informed Puech’s thesis begins the volume along with study of his own thesis. A discussion of the academy’s reception of Puech then follows. The close reading of early pertinent texts forms the heart of the work arguing for eight discernible models of history, time, and world that arose within the second-century intellectual debate.

Zielgruppe

Scholars in Early Christian Studies, Gnosticism, Nag Hammadi, His

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bingham, D. Jeffrey

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Zeit: Philosophische, Psychologische, Soziale Aspekte

Über Autor(innen)

D. Jeffrey Bingham, Southwestern Seminary, Fort Worth, Texas, USA.