{"product_id":"gnosis-and-hermeticism-from-antiquity-to-modern-times-9780791436127","title":"Gnosis and Hermeticism from Antiquity to Modern Times","description":"This volume introduces what has sometimes been called \"the third component of western culture.\" It traces the historical development of those religious traditions which have rejected a world view based on the primacy of pure rationality or doctrinal faith, emphasizing instead the importance of inner enlightenment or gnosis: a revelatory experience which was typically believed to entail an encounter with one's true self as well as with the ground of being, God.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe contributors to this book demonstrate this perspective as fundamental to a variety of interconnected traditions. In Antiquity, one finds the gnostics and hermetics; in the Middle Ages several Christian sects. The medieval Cathars can, to a certain extent, be considered part of the same tradition. Starting with the Italian humanist Renaissance, hermetic philosophy became of central importance to a new religious synthesis that can be referred to as Western Esotericism.\" The development of this tradition is described from Renaissance hermeticists and practitioners of spiritual alchemy to the emergence of Rosicrucianism and Christian theosophy in the seventeenth century, and from post-enlightenment aspects of Romanticism and occultism to the present-day New Age movement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-43329\"\u003eRoelof Van Den Broek\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/13\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.24lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.98h x 5.84w x 1.07d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780791436127\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0791436128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-REL\"\u003eReligion\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-REL017000\"\u003eComparative Religion\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-REL\"\u003eReligion\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-REL033000\"\u003eHistory\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRoelof van den Broek\u003c\/b\u003e is Emeritus Professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. He has also written \u003ci\u003eThe Myth of the Phoenix: According to Classical and Early Christian Traditions\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eStudies in Gnosticism and Alexandrian Christianity\u003c\/i\u003e. Also at the University of Utrecht, \u003cb\u003eWouter J. Hanegraaff\u003c\/b\u003e is a Research Fellow in the Study of Religions. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eNew Age Religion and Western Culture: Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44443497726189,"sku":"9780791436127","price":60.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_143d97c6-2ab7-40cd-b885-5e340a1563e3.jpg?v=1700231193","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/gnosis-and-hermeticism-from-antiquity-to-modern-times-9780791436127","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}