Gnosticism
Subtitle: from Nag Hammadi to the Gospel of Judas
By: Professor David Brakke
Contributors: Teaching Company
Series: Great courses. Religion & Theology. Christianity; Great courses (Compact disc)
Publisher: Great Courses
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Format: [sound recording] :
Number of pages: 720
ISBN-13: 9781598039153
Subjects: Gospel of Judas; Criticism, interpretation; Nag Hammadi codices; Gnosticism; Church history
Description: The three centuries following the death of Jesus were a momentous and turbulent era in Western religious thought. During this time, as Christianity began its massive growth, few if any influences on the theological landscape were as significant as the religious movements know as Gnosticism. Gnosticism intersected deeply with early Christian thought, sparking religious ideologies that competed with the theological thinking that came to define Christianity. Though Gnosticism was eventually branded as heretical by the emerging orthodox church, the church formed many of its most central doctrines in response to Gnostic ideas.
Notes: Course no. 6271.

Program contains twenty-four lectures; the length of each lecture is: ca. 30 min.

Lecture notes and program information contained in course guidebook.

Title from disc surface.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-185) in course guidebook.

Lecturer: Professor David Brakke, The Ohio State University.

Compact discs.
Table of contents: title: Disc 1.; title: Rediscovering Gnōsis ;; title: Who were the Gnostics? -- -- disc 2.; title: God in Gnostic myth ;; title: Gnosticism on creation, sin, and salvation -- -- disc 3.; title: Judas as a Gnostic tragic hero ;; title: Gnostic Bible stories -- -- disc 4.; title: Gnosticism's ritual pathway to God ;; title: The feminine in Gnostic myth -- -- discs 5.; title: The Gospel of Thomas's cryptic sayings ;; title: The Gospel of Thomas on reunifying the self -- -- disc 6.; title: Valentinus, great preacher of Gnōsis ;; title: God and creation in Valentinian myth -- -- disc 7.; title: "Becoming male" through Valentinian ritual ;; title: Valentinian views on Christian theology -- -- disc 8.; title: Mary Magdalene as an apostle of Gnōsis ;; title: Competing revelations from Christ -- -- disc 9.; title: The invention of heresy ;; title: Making Gnōsis orthodox -- -- disc 10.; title: Gnosticism and Judaism ;; title: Gnōsis without Christ -- -- disc 11.; title: The mythology of Manichaeism ;; title: Augustine on Manichaeism and original sin -- -- disc 12.; title: Gnostic traces in Western religions ;; title: "Gnosticism" in the modern imagination.