10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DEMIURGICAL»
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demiurgical in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
demiurgical and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Rethinking "Gnosticism": An Argument for Dismantling a ...
But even if we redirect the quest for origins to better-defined categories such as
biblical demiurgical myth, it is more probable that such myths had several origins
and not just one. What I have called a demiurgical myth involves, after all, some ...
Michael Allen Williams, 1999
This caused conflict between representatives of the true God and the forces of
evil, a conflict commanded by the demiurgical God himself. The Secret Book of
John4 and related classic Gnostic writings explain how, by design of the true God
, ...
Christoph Auffarth, Loren T. Stuckenbruck, 2004
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Theorizing Religions Past: Archaeology, History, and Cognition
We may assume that the people behind the "biblical demiurgical" writings were
part of Jewish-Christian circles; therefore, the Valentinian Gospel of Truth and the
Sethian Allogenes are compared to the patristic writing of 1renaeus of Lyons ...
Harvey Whitehouse, Luther H. Martin, 2004
4
Gnostic Revisions of Genesis Stories And Early Jesus Traditions
In effect, the demiurgical God and his allies threaten the divine power in humanity
in two different ways. As they created the human soul out of their own substance,
they were able to control its motions. Indeed, Gnostics believed that they could ...
Gerard P. Luttikhuizen, 2006
5
Mysticism, Magic, and Kabbalah in Ashkenazi Judaism: ...
Already in one of the passages in the older Shi'ur Qomah fragments there is an
echo of the demiurgical characterization of Metatron in the description of him
being written "with the letter by. 82 For the sources of this etymology, see above,
n.
Karl-Erich Grözinger, Joseph Dan, 1995
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Words Against Words: On the Rhetoric of Carlo Michelstaedter
Here, 'demiurgical' includes «those that ascribe the creation and management of
the cosmos to some lower entity or entities, distinct from the highest God» («this
would include most of ancient Platonism»)18, and 'biblical' «denote[s] ...
D. The demiurgical triad (b) is after these, first having being, second intellect, and
third, the source (nnyr|) of souls. E. And from this triad there is another triad, the
absolute soul (auxo\|/uxr|), the universal (KaGô^ou) soul, and the all-soul (xou ...
Wolf-Peter Funk, Paul-Hubert Poirier, 2000
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Jerusalem, Alexandria, Rome:
A fundamental element of the preceding teaching is the distinction being made
between the supreme God, the Invisible Spirit, and the demiurgical God
Yaldabaoth, and, furthermore, the identification of the God of Genesis, the biblical
Creator ...
Antonius Hilhorst, Florentino Garcâia Martâinez, Gerard P. Luttikhuizen, 2003
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Sethian Gnosticism and the Platonic Tradition
C. After this he defines another triad, a) the Intellectual Depth, and another one, b
) the Demiurgical Depth; the first one (a) is elvai before being (to 6v), voetv before
intellect (voOs), £fjv before life (£wr|). D. The demiurgical triad (b) is after these, ...
John Douglas Turner, 2001
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Philosopher at Work: Essays
Work and Culture When the work of the mind, in a given society, aims principally
at the mastery of man over physical nature, the intellectual life of this society is
dominated by what we may call a demiurgical ideal. When the work of the mind ...
Yves René Marie Simon, Anthony O. Simon, 1999
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DEMIURGICAL»
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demiurgical is used in the context of the following news items.
Pneuma Hagion's R. Discusses Death Metal, Greek Philosophy, and …
I tend to subscribe to the pseudo-dualism of flesh versus spirit which is so common to biblical demiurgical traditions (pseudo-dualist because ... «Noisey, Feb 15»
Our Idiot Brother – Soundtrack
... comedy likes of Bridesmaids and The Dilemma) can surely be attributed to the demiurgical influence of score co-composers, Eric D. Johnson ... «Movie-Moron, Jul 11»
'Kinshasa: Tales of the Invisible City', Filip De Boeck and Marie …
This reflection on photography by Papa Verbalizant, an inhabitant of Kinshasa, points to the demiurgical qualities inherent in the creation of ... «Open Democracy, Aug 06»
