Talking about Religious Experience at Nag Hammadi
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/bsor.v42i1.2Keywords:
gnosticism, religious experience, Nag Hammadi, the Gospel of TruthAbstract
In this article Michael Kaler notes the emphasis found in gnostic texts on transcendent religious experience and argues that this emphasis needs to be taken more into account in modern research than has tended to be the case.
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Hedrick, Charles. 1980. “Gnostic Proclivities in the Greek Life of Pachomius and the Sitz im Leben of the Nag Hammadi Library.” Novum Testamentum 22:78–94.
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Layton, Bentley. 1987. The Gnostic Scriptures. Garden City: Doubleday.
Lewis, James. 2003. Legitimating New Religions. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
Meyer, Marvin W., and Wolf-Peter Funk. 2007. The Nag Hammadi Scriptures. New York: HarperOne.
Pearson, Birger. 2007. Ancient Gnosticism: Traditions and Literature. Minneapolis: Fortress.
Taves, Anne. 2009. Religious Experience Reconsidered : A Building Block Approach to the Study of Religion and Other Special Things. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Thomassen, Einar. 2006. The Spiritual Seed: The Church of the “Valentinians.” Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies 60. Leiden: Brill.
Williams, Jacqueline. 1988. Biblical Interpretation in the Gnostic Gospel of Truth from Nag Hammadi. Atlanta: Scholars Press.
Published
2013-03-08
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How to Cite
Kaler, M. (2013). Talking about Religious Experience at Nag Hammadi. Bulletin for the Study of Religion, 42(1), 2-7. https://doi.org/10.1558/bsor.v42i1.2
