Eschatology, Androgynous Thinking, Encratism, and the Question of Anti-Gnosticism in 2 Clement 12 (Part Two)
نام عام مواد
[Article]
نام نخستين پديدآور
James A. Kelhoffer
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
محل نشرو پخش و غیره
Leiden
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
Brill
یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
Part One of this investigation problematized the use by numerous scholars of an untenably broad definition of "Gnosticism" to support the inference that 2 Clement 12 criticizes gnostic Christ-believers. Part Two completes the analysis of 2 Clement 12 and examines 2 Clement 13, which casts further doubt upon the notion that 12:5-6 calls for sexual renunciation. It is argued that 12:1-13:4 is not polemical and does not censure any distinctively gnostic views or praxes. By shedding both the supposedly gnostic background of the dominical logion about "the two" becoming "one," about the "outside" being like the "inside," and about "neither male nor female" (12:2b, 6b) and an antignostic agenda for the interpretations of the logion (12:3-5), scholarship has a better chance of opening up promising avenues for interpreting 12:1-13:4. In particular, the call to cultivate thinking that does not take into account a Christian's gender (12:5) and the notion that the kingdom's arrival depends on believers' moral development (12:6) merit further investigation. Part One of this investigation problematized the use by numerous scholars of an untenably broad definition of "Gnosticism" to support the inference that 2 Clement 12 criticizes gnostic Christ-believers. Part Two completes the analysis of 2 Clement 12 and examines 2 Clement 13, which casts further doubt upon the notion that 12:5-6 calls for sexual renunciation. It is argued that 12:1-13:4 is not polemical and does not censure any distinctively gnostic views or praxes. By shedding both the supposedly gnostic background of the dominical logion about "the two" becoming "one," about the "outside" being like the "inside," and about "neither male nor female" (12:2b, 6b) and an antignostic agenda for the interpretations of the logion (12:3-5), scholarship has a better chance of opening up promising avenues for interpreting 12:1-13:4. In particular, the call to cultivate thinking that does not take into account a Christian's gender (12:5) and the notion that the kingdom's arrival depends on believers' moral development (12:6) merit further investigation.
مجموعه
تاريخ نشر
2018
توصيف ظاهري
353-368
عنوان
Vigiliae Christianae
شماره جلد
72/4
شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها
1570-0720
اصطلاحهای موضوعی کنترل نشده
اصطلاح موضوعی
2 Clement
اصطلاح موضوعی
androgyny
اصطلاح موضوعی
encratism
اصطلاح موضوعی
eschatology
اصطلاح موضوعی
gender
اصطلاح موضوعی
Gnosticism
اصطلاح موضوعی
Gospel of the Egyptians
اصطلاح موضوعی
Gospel of Thomas
اصطلاح موضوعی
Gospel of Truth
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