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The tyranny of time? : time, world, and knowledge in second-century Christian and Christian-Gnostic texts / D. Jeffrey Bingham.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bingham, D. Jeffrey (Dwight Jeffrey), author.
- Series:
- Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte ; 163.
- Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte, 1861-5996 ; volume 163
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Puech, Henri-Charles.
- Gnosticism.
- Gnosticism--Historiography.
- Time--Religious aspects.
- Time.
- Christian literature, Early--History and criticism.
- Christian literature, Early.
- Church history--2nd century.
- Church history.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 262 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin : De Gruyter, [2025]
- Summary:
- "Henri-Charles Puech (1950s) claimed that contrary to the early 'Christian' view, 'Gnosticism' disparaged time, history and world with its anti-cosmic, anti-historical bias. This book rebuts his thesis by analyzing his 'Gnostic' texts along with a wider array of literature from within second-century Christian and Gnostic Christian communities. This close reading displays an era of broad theological discussion with a spectrum of proposed models." -- Publisher, page four of cover.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Part 1. Henri-Charles Puech, Gnostic anti-cosmism, and salvation history.
- 1. H.-Ch. Puech, his context, his essay, and contemporary interests
- 2. Responses to Puech
- 3. Salvation history and apocalyptic eschatology in contemporary Valentinian and Sethian studies
- Part 2. The segments of time and history in second-century literature.
- 4. Second-century Christian intellectuals : facility for discourse
- 5. Temporality and eternality : a second-century debate
- 6. The segments of time in the second century : mosaic times and nomism
- 7. Relating world of temporality and eternality : the Apocryphon of John, the Gospel of Mary, and the Valentinians
- 8. Relating worlds of temporality and eternality : symmetry, promise, and fulfillment in Irenaeus
- 9. Time, knowledge, and worship among Jews, pagans, and Christians : Aristides, Epistle to Diogentus, and Theophilus
- 10. Summary and conclusion: Worlds, times, and epistemologies among second-century Christians.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [219]-242) and indexes.
- Other Format:
- PDF version
- ISBN:
- 9783111620312
- 311162031X
- OCLC:
- 1474439086
- Publisher Number:
- 9783111620312
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