Church and Gnosis
A Study of Christian Thought and Speculation in the Second Century: The Morse Lectures for 1931
Published on 12. January 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
168 pages
978-1-107-63138-0 (ISBN)
Description
Francis Crawford Burkitt (1864-1935) was a prominent theologian and biblical scholar. Originally published in 1932, this book contains the substance of five lectures delivered by Burkitt during October 1931 at Union Theological Seminary, New York, as the Morse Lectures for that year. Various aspects of the relationship between Church doctrine and Gnostic thought are discussed, providing a highly informative analysis of a complicated topic. Rigorous and thought-provoking, this text will be of value to anyone with an interest in the early development of Christianity and biblical scholarship in general.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
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Paperback (trade)
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Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
188 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-107-63138-0 (9781107631380)
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Person
F. Crawford Burkitt (1864-1935) was Norrisian Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge from 1905-35. His other publications include Evangelion da-Mepharreshe (1904), The Gospel History and Its Transmission (1906), and Earliest Sources for the Life of Jesus (1910). He was elected to the British Academy Fellowship in 1905.
Content
Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Philosophical Gnosticism; 3. Egyptian Gnostic works; 4. The Fourth Gospel: Mandaism and Christianity; 5. The Church and the Old Testament; Index.