Chasing Down Religion - In the Sights of History and the Cognitive Sciences - Panayotis Pachis
Gnosis in European Religious History
Chasing Down Religion - In the Sights of History and the Cognitive Sciences - Panayotis Pachis
Ulrich Berner [+]
University of Bayreuth, Germany
BERNER ULRICH is Professor of Religious Studies at the
University of Bayreuth, Germany, faculty of cultural sciences. His main
interests are European History of Religions, African Christianity, and
Method and Theory in the Study of Religion. He is a member of the
Advisory Board for SAPERE (Scripta Antiquitatis Posterioris ad
Ethicam Religionemque pertinentia).
Description
The Gnosis-Concept as Problematic. A Look at the Research-History Gnosis as it appears in the European history of religions is more difficult to delineate than, for example, Neoplatonism or pantheism. For the concept of Gnosis has evoked completely different meanings over the last decades.