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Title Gnosis on the Silk Road : Gnostic texts from Central Asia / translated & presented by Hans-Joachim Klimkeit.

Imprint [San Francisco, Calif.] : HarperSanFrancisco, ©1993.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  299.932 G572G    Check Shelf
Edition 1st ed.
Description xx, 405 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-395).
Contents Introduction : Mani and Manichaeism -- Iranian texts : Hymns to the Father of Light -- Hymns on cosmogony and eschatology -- Hymns to the Living Soul -- Hymns to the Third Messenger -- Hymns to Jesus the Splendor -- Hymns and liturgical texts about Jesus the Messiah -- Texts on the Twelve Dominions of Light -- Hymns to Mani and individual Church leaders -- Hymns for the Church hierarchy and Church dignitaries -- Verses from Parthian hymn cycles -- Miscellaneous verse texts -- A book of prayer and confession.
Diverse liturgical texts -- Prayers, invocations, and incantations -- An index of Parthian hymns -- Parables -- Historical texts -- Prose texts on cosmogony and cosmology -- Prose texts on eschatology -- Texts on the soul and salvation -- Letters and admonitions -- Postscripts -- Turkish texts : Hymns to Mani -- General hymns and prayers -- Confessions -- Parables and narratives -- Texts on Jesus, Mani, and the Gods -- Cosmological texts -- Texts on man and his salvation -- Texts on the Manichaean community and Manichaean kingship -- Historical texts -- Letters and poscripts.
Summary In the late 1970s the first English translation of the Coptic texts discovered in Egypt in 1945, which came to be known as the Nag Hammadi Library, profoundly changed the world's understanding of Christianity. Now with the publication of Gnosis on the Silk Road - a never before published collection of extraordinary texts from the Gnostic tradition in Central Asia - renowned scholar and author Hans-Joachim Klimkeit has provided a unique Eastern companion text to that important work.
This first-ever English translation of the major Gnostic texts from Asia is a vital discovery that reveals a new expression of Christianity as it blended with the mystical religions of Turkey, Persia, Central Asia, and even China.
Klimkeit presents an astonishing collection of parables, hymns, narratives, and prayers that unveil a major Christian movement primarily founded by the prophet Mani, who merged Gnostic Christianity with the radical religious dualism of Persian religion and Zoroaster. As the movement spread along the Silk Road from Turkey to Asia, it adopted prominent features from Hinduism, Buddhism, and other Asian faiths.
The result was a Christian philosophy and practice that was much closer to the mystical, meditative religions of the East. Like the Western Gnosticism reflected in the Nag Hammadi Library, this Eastern Gnosticism was condemned as heresy by orthodox Christianity, and only today with the opening up of the former Soviet Union and the increased awareness of the importance of the Silk Road has the world been given a chance to learn from this radically different approach to Christianity.
Language Translations from Iranian and Turkish texts.
Subject Manichaeism -- Asia, Central.
Asia, Central -- Religion.
Asia Central -- Religión.
Manichaeism. (OCoLC)fst01007716
Religion. (OCoLC)fst01093763
Central Asia. (OCoLC)fst01240497
Geschichte (DE-588)4020517-4
Gnosis (DE-588)4021391-2
Manichäismus (DE-588)4127861-6
Quelle (DE-588)4135952-5
Seidenstraße (DE-588)4054299-3
Zentralasien (DE-588)4079487-8
Gnosticisme.
Manicheïsme.
Gnosis.
Seidenstraße.
Indexed Term Asia, Religion
Manichaeism Asia, Central
Added Author Klimkeit, Hans-Joachim.
Mazal Holocaust Collection. TxSaTAM
Other Form: Online version: Gnosis on the Silk Road. 1st ed. [San Francisco, Calif.] : HarperSanFrancisco, ©1993 (OCoLC)622990338
ISBN 0060645865 (alk. paper)
9780060645861 (alk. paper)
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