Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World

Kevin Corrigan is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities and Director of the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts at Emory University. His recent works include Evagrius and Gregory: Mind, Soul and Body in the 4th Century (Ashgate, 2009), Religion and Philosophy in the Platonic and Neoplatonic Traditions (ed. with J. D. Turner and P. Wakefield, Akademia Verlag, 2012), and Reason, Faith and Otherness in Neoplatonic and Early Christian Thought (Ashgate, 2013).Tuomas Rasimus is an Academy of Finland Research Fellow at the University of Helsinki, and an Associate Professor at Université Laval. He has published on Gnosticism, Early Christianity and Neoplatonism, and his recent works include Paradise Reconsidered in Gnostic Mythmaking (Brill, 2009), The Legacy of John: Second-Century Reception of the Fourth Gospel (ed., Brill, 2010), and Stoicism in Early Christianity (ed. with T. Engberg-Pedersen and I. Dunderberg, Baker Academic, 2010).

• Sidnie White Crawford, John D. Turner: An AppreciationPART I: GNOSTICISM AND OTHER RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS OF ANTIQUITYKaren L. King, Distinctive Intertextuality: Genesis and Platonizing Philosophy in The Secret Revelation of JohnPaul-Hubert Poirier, The Three Forms of First Thought (NHC XIII,1), and the Secret Book of John (NHC II,1 and par.)Lance Jenott, Emissaries of Truth and Justice: The Seed of Seth as Agents of Divine ProvidenceEinar Thomassen, Sethian Names in Magical Texts: Protophanes and MeirotheosWolf-Peter Funk, “Third Ones and Fourth Ones”: Some Reflections on the Use of Indefinite Ordinals in ZostrianosLouis Painchaud, Le quatrième écrit du codex Tchacos : les livres d’Allogène et la tradition littéraire séthienneBirger A. Pearson, The Book of Allogenes (CT,4) and Sethian GnosticismMadeleine Scopello, The Temptation of Allogenes (Codex Tchacos, Tractate IV)Volker Drecoll, Martin Hengel and the Origins of GnosticismRobert M. Berchman, Arithmos and Kosmos: Arithmology as an Exegetical Tool in the De Opificio Mundi of Philo of AlexandriaAnne Pasquier, Parole intérieure et parole proférée chez Philon d’Alexandrie et dans l’Évangile de la Vérité (NH I,3)Jean-Daniel Dubois, Remarques sur la cohérence des Extraits de ThéodoteHugo Lundhaug, Evidence of “Valentinian” Ritual Practice? The Liturgical Fragments of Nag Hammadi Codex XI (NHC XI,2a–e)Antti Marjanen, A Salvific Act of Transformation or a Symbol of Defilement? Baptism in Valentinian Liturgical Readings (NHC XI,2) and in the Testimony of Truth (NHC IX,3)Dylan M. Burns, “The Garment Poured its Entire Self over Me”: Christian Baptismal Traditions and the Origins of the Hymn of the PearlJohannes van Oort, Alexander of Lycopolis, Manichaeism and NeoplatonismApril DeConick, Crafting Gnosis: Gnostic Spirituality in the Ancient New AgePART II: CROSSING BOUNDARIES: GNOSTICISM AND PLATONISMKevin Corrigan, The Symposium and Republic in the Mystical Thought of Plotinus and the Sethian GnosticsZeke Mazur, “Those Who Ascend to the Sanctuaries of the Temples”: The Gnostic Context of Plotinus’ First Treatise, 1.6 [1], On BeautyTuomas Rasimus, Johannine Background of the Being-Life-Mind TriadJean-Marc Narbonne, The Neopythagorean Backdrop to the Fall (σφάλμα/νεῦσις) of the Soul in Gnosticism and its Echo in the Plotinian Treatises 33 and 34Michel Tardieu, Écho et les antitypesLuc Brisson, Plotinus and the Magical Rites Practiced by the GnosticsLorenzo Ferroni, Where Did Matter Appear From? A Syntactic Problem in a Plotinian anti-Gnostic TreatiseAndrei Cornea, Plotinus, Epicurus, and the Gnostics: On Plotinian Classification of PhilosophiesJohn Dillon, Plotinus and the Vehicle of the SoulMichael A. Williams, Life and Happiness in the “Platonic Underworld”Svetla Slaveva-Griffin, Trial by Fire: An Ontological Reading of KatharsisGerald Bechtle, “Harmonizing” Aristotle’s Categories and Plato’s Parmenides: Before the Background of Natural PhilosophyMark Edwards, Christians against Matter: A Bouquet for Bishop BerkeleyBenjamin Gleede, Proclus against the Gnostics? Some Remarks on a Subtle Allusion in the Timaeus-Commentary concerning Caves and CagesAlain Lernould, Imagination and Psychic Body: Apparitions of the Divine and Geometric Imagination according to ProclusJay Bregman, Neoplatonizing Gnosticism and Gnosticizing Neoplatonism in the “American Baroque”

"Great FS for a great scholar, excellently edited by a team led by Tuomas Rasimus: Sidnie White Crawford, John D. Turner." – J. van Oort, in: Vigiliae Christianae 68 (2014)"ein aufschlussreicher und instruktiver Band" – Barbara Aland, in: Theologische Literaturzeitung 140 (2015)