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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Cambridge Univ. Press
1984
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Harvard theological review
Year: 1984, Volume: 77, Issue: 1, Pages: 55-72 |
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