Gnosticism as Platonism: With Special Reference to Marsanes (NHC 10,1)

From ancient times it has been averred that the Gnostics derived their basic ideas from the Greek philosophers, especially Pythagoras and Plato. For example, Irenaeus (Adv. haer. 2.14) argued that the Valentinian Gnostics borrowed their doctrines of the pleroma and kenoma from Democritus and Plato....

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Main Author: Pearson, Birger A. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 1984
In: Harvard theological review
Year: 1984, Volume: 77, Issue: 1, Pages: 55-72
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