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Author : George Robert Stow Mead
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Total Pages : 100 pages
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Download or read book The Gnostic Crucifixion written by George Robert Stow Mead and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Robert Stow Mead
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Total Pages : 92 pages
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Download or read book Echoes from the Gnosis: the Gnostic crucifixion. 1907 written by George Robert Stow Mead and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : G. Mead
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ISBN 13 : 9781544168784
Total Pages : 34 pages
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Download or read book The Gnostic Crucifixion written by G. Mead and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-27 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Those Gnostic texts that discuss Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection display a variety of views that, nevertheless, reveal some common themes. James is consoled by Jesus in the First Apocalypse of James: "Never have I suffered in any way, nor have I been distressed. And this people has done me no harm."19 In the Second Treatise of the Great Seth, Jesus says, "I did not die in reality, but in appearance." Those "in error and blindness....saw me; they punished me. It was another, their father, who drank the gall and vinegar; it was not I. They struck me with the reed; it was another, Simon, who bore the cross on his shoulder. I was rejoicing in the height over all....And I was laughing at their ignorance."20 John Dart has discerned that the Gnostic stories of Jesus mocking his executors reverse the accounts in Matthew, Mark, and Luke where the soldiers and chief priests (Mark 15:20) mock Jesus.21 In the biblical Gospels, Jesus does not deride or mock His tormentors; on the contrary, while suffering from the cross, He asks the Father to forgive those who nailed Him there. In the teaching of Valentinus and followers, the death of Jesus is movingly recounted, yet without the New Testament significance. Although the Gospel of Truth says that "his death is life for many," it views this life-giving in terms of imparting the gnosis, not removing sin.22 Pagels says that rather than viewing Christ's death as a sacrificial offering to atone for guilt and sin, the Gospel of Truth "sees the crucifixion as the occasion for discovering the divine self within."23 A resurrection is enthusiastically affirmed in the Treatise on the Resurrection: "Do not think the resurrection is an illusion. It is no illusion, but it is truth! Indeed, it is more fitting to say that the world is an illusion rather than the resurrection."24 Yet, the nature of the post-resurrection appearances differs from the biblical accounts. Jesus is disclosed through spiritual visions rather than physical circumstances. The resurrected Jesus for the Gnostics is the spiritual Revealer who imparts secret wisdom to the selected few. The tone and content of Luke's account of Jesus' resurrection appearances is a great distance from Gnostic accounts: "After his suffering, he showed himself to these men and gave many convincing proofs that he was alive. He appeared to them over a period of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God" (Acts 1:3). By now it should be apparent that the biblical Jesus has little in common with the Gnostic Jesus. He is viewed as a Redeemer in both cases, yet his nature as a Redeemer and the way of redemption diverge at crucial points. We shall now examine some of these points.
Author : G R S Mead
Publisher : Blurb
ISBN 13 : 9781006002250
Total Pages : 40 pages
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Download or read book The Gnostic Crucifixion written by G R S Mead and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2022-01-10 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gnostic Crucifixion is a fine Christian education text by G R S Mead that deals with Gnosticism and the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. This classic religious text contains this preface: "The Gnostic Mystery of the Crucifixion is most clearly set forth in the new-found fragments of The Acts of John, and follows immediately on the Sacred Dance and Ritual of Initiation which we endeavoured to elucidate in Vol. IV. of these little books, in treating of The Hymn of Jesus."
Author : George Robert Stow Mead
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ISBN 13 : 9781558181762
Total Pages : 32 pages
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Download or read book The Gnostic Crucifixion written by George Robert Stow Mead and published by . This book was released on 1994-12-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : G. R. S. Mead
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781499267631
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Gnostic Crucifixion written by G. R. S. Mead and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-04-28 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gnostic Mystery of the Crucifixion is most clearly set forth in the new-found fragments of The Acts of John, and follows immediately on the Sacred Dance and Ritual of Initiation which we endeavoured to elucidate in Vol. IV. of these little books, in treating of The Hymn of Jesus.The reader is, therefore, referred to the “Preamble” of that volume for a short introduction concerning the nature of the Gnostic Acts in general and of the Leucian Acts of John in particular. I would, however, add a point of interest bearing on the date which was forgotten, though I have frequently remarked upon it when lecturing on the subject.
Author : James McConkey Robinson
Publisher : Brill Archive
ISBN 13 : 9789004071858
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Nag Hammadi Library in English written by James McConkey Robinson and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1984 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Robert Stow Mead
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ISBN 13 : 9781434430830
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Download or read book Gnostic Crucifixion written by George Robert Stow Mead and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gerard Stephen Sloyan
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 9781451408553
Total Pages : 252 pages
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Download or read book The Crucifixion of Jesus written by Gerard Stephen Sloyan and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was crucifixion? Why was Jesus of Nazareth executed and what really happened? Gerard Sloyan begins with history and traces the development of the New Testament accounts of Jesus' death. He shows how Jesus' death came to be seen as sacrificial and how the evolving understandings of Jesus' death affected those who suffered most from it - the Jews. He then traces the emergence and development - in theology, liturgy, literature, art - of the conviction that Jesus' death was redemptive, as seen both in soteriological theory from Tertullian to Anselm, in the Reformation and modern eras, and in more popular religious responses to the crucifixion. Especially fascinating is the story of the emergence of a distinct "Passion piety" that still characterizes the West. In all this Sloyan detects the separation of the cross from Jesus' life and resurrection, allowing the mythicizing of an event too large for mere words to handle: the mystery of the cross.
Author : George Robert Stow Mead
Publisher : Quest Books
ISBN 13 : 9780835608411
Total Pages : 556 pages
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Download or read book Echoes from the Gnosis written by George Robert Stow Mead and published by Quest Books. This book was released on 2006-06-25 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1906 and 1908, G. R. S. Mead published eleven small books under the series title "Echoes from the Gnosis." These books contain translations and interpretations of the Gnostic writings of the ancients. Long before the discovery of the Nag Hammadi Library, Mead translated these esoteric texts of various origins (Christian, Roman, Greek). He wanted to make this material accessible to the growing number of people at the time eager to encounter this ancient mystical religion based on an intuitive process of knowing oneself and the hidden aspects of life and existence. Upon the publication of the 100-year anniversary edition of the series, the appeal for this same material remains stronger than ever.
