num_pages: 571
description: The essays in Practicing Gnosis demonstrate that the Gnostics were not necessarily trendy intellectuals seeking epistomological certainities. Instead this book explores how Gnostics were seeking religious experiences that relied on practices including ritual magic liturgy and theurgy. This book celebrates the career of Birger A. Pearson.
language: English
title: Practicing Gnosis: Ritual, Magic, Theurgy and Liturgy in Nag Hammadi, Manichaean and Other Ancient Literature
publisher: Brill Academic Publishers