Histories of the hidden God: concealment and revelation in Western gnostic, esoteric, and mystical traditions

Introduction In search of the hidden God April D. DeConick -- Part I: Concealment of the hidden God Who is hiding in the Gospel of John? : reconceptualizing Johannine theology and the roots of Gnosticism April D. DeConick -- Adoil outside the cosmos : God before and after Creation in the Enochic tra...

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Contributors: De Conick, April D. (Other)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Durham Acumen 2013
In:Year: 2013
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Series/Journal:Gnostica
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Deus absconditus (motif)
Further subjects:B Collection of essays
B God (Christianity)
B God History of doctrines
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Summary:Introduction In search of the hidden God April D. DeConick -- Part I: Concealment of the hidden God Who is hiding in the Gospel of John? : reconceptualizing Johannine theology and the roots of Gnosticism April D. DeConick -- Adoil outside the cosmos : God before and after Creation in the Enochic tradition Andrei A. Orlov -- The old gods of Egypt in lost Hermetica and early Sethianism Grant Adamson -- Hidden God and hidden self : the emergence of apophatic anthropology in Christian mysticism Bernard McGinn -- God's occulted body : on the hiddenness of Christ in Alan of Lille's Anticlaudianus Claire Fanger -- Part II: The human quest for the hidden God Obscured by the scriptures, revealed by the prophets : God in the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies Kelley Coblentz Bautch -- How hidden was God? : revelation and pedagogy in ancient and medieval Hermetic writings David Porreca -- From hidden to revealed in Sethian revelation, ritual, and protology John D. Turner -- Shamanism and the hidden history of modern Kabbalah Jonathan Garb -- Dreaming of paradise : seeing the hidden God in Islam David Cook -- Part III: Revelations of the hidden God Revealing and concealing God in ancient synagogue art Shira Lander -- The invisible Christian God in Christian art Robin M. Jensen -- On the Mothman, God, and other monsters : the demonology of John A. Keel Jeffrey J. Kripal -- Hidden away : esotericism and Gnosticism in Elijah Muhammad's Nation of Islam Stephen C. Finley -- Conscious concealment : the repression and expression of African American spiritualists Margarita Simon Guillory -- Occulture in the academy? : the case of Joseph P. Farrell John Stroup -- Afterword Mysticism, Gnosticism, and esotericism as entangled discourses Kocku von Stuckrad
Item Description:Bibliogr. S. 320 - 347
Includes bibliographical references (pages 320-347) and index
ISBN:184465687X