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The Tyranny of Time Time, World, and Knowledge in Second-Century Christian and Christian-Gnostic Texts


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D. Jeffrey Bingham, "The Tyranny of Time?: Time, World, and Knowledge in Second-Century Christian and Christian-Gnostic Texts "
English | ISBN: 311162031X | 2024 | 274 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
In a day fascinated with questions of historiography and with explicating a distinctive Christian philosophy of time and history, Henri-Charles Puech's (1950s) work on Gnosis and time found an audience. Studying four second-century texts he marked as Gnostic, he argued for the Gnostic, anti-cosmic, anti-historical pessimism about existence within the tyrannical temporal world of bondage and error. Bliss and truth were otherworldly and atemporal. This book reassesses Puech's argument by analysis of the writings undergirding his sample and a wide array of second-century Christian and Gnostic-Christian texts that display not the Gnostic view, as if there were one, but a broader second-century theological discussion regarding time, world and knowledge manifesting a spectrum of perspectives. A review of past and present scholarly discourse that evoked discussions of Gnosticism and anti-cosmism, and informed Puech's thesis begins the volume along with study of his own thesis. A discussion of the academy's reception of Puech then follows. The close reading of early pertinent texts forms the heart of the work arguing for eight discernible models of history, time, and world that arose within the second-century intellectual debate.

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