Apocalypse of the alien god : Platonism and the exile of Sethian gnosticism /
Apocalypse of the Alien God shows that the fundamental break between the Platonic tradition and Judeo-Christianity began when the mystic Plotinus rejected the teachings of the Sethians, an influential group of Gnostics who operated at the intersection of Hellenic, Jewish, and Christian thought.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
2014
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Divinations : rereading late ancient religion
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
