Neoplatonism and Gnosticism

Richard T. Wallis was Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Oklahoma. Jay Bregman is Professor of History at the University of Maine, Orono.

• PrefaceR. Baine HarrisIntroductionRichard T Wallis And Jay BregmanTheourgia - Demiourgia: A Controversial Issue in Hellenistic Thought and ReligionJohn P. AntonDualism: Platonic, Gnostic, and ChristianA.H. ArmstrongThe "Second God" in Gnosticism and Plotinus's Anti-Gnostic Polemic, translated from Spanish by Winifred T SlaterFrancisco Garcia BazánSynesius, the Hermetica and GnosisJay BregmanPleroma and Noetic Cosmos: A Comparative StudyJohn M. DillonPlotinus's Anti-Gnostic Polemic and Porphyry's Against The ChristiansChristos EvangeliouTheological Doctrines of the Latin AsclepiusStephen GershNegative Theology in Gnosticism and NeoplatonismCurtis L. HancockThe Platonism of the Tripartite Tractate (NH I, 5)John Peter KenneyThe Noetic Triad in Plotinus, Marius Victorinus, and AugustinePeter Manchester"Plenty Sleeps There": The Myth of Eros and Psyche in Plotinus and GnosticismPatricia Cox Miller"The Name of the Father is the Son" (Gospel of Truth 38)Raoul MortleyTheurgic Tendencies in Gnosticism and Iamblichus's Conception of TheurgyBirger A. PearsonBeauty, Number, and Loss of Order in the Gnostic CosmosPheme PerkinsTheories of Procession in Plotinus and the GnosticsJean PépinTitus of Bostra and Alexander of Lycopolis: A Christian and a Platonic Refutation of Manichaean DualismGedaliahu G. StroumsaLe Nombre et son Ombre (Résumé)Ara Alexandru SismanianMani's Twin and Plotinus: Questions on "Self"Leo Sweeney, S.J.Gnosticism and Platonism: The Platonizing Sethian Texts from Nag Hammadi in their Relation to Later Platonic LiteratureJohn D. TurnerSoul and Nous in Plotinus, Numenius and GnosticismRichard T. WallisHigher Providence, Lower Providences and Fate in Gnosticism and Middle PlatonismMichael A. WilliamsIndex