
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Introduction: In search of the hidden God
- Part I Concealment of the Hidden God
- 1 Who is hiding in the Gospel of John? Reconceptualizing Johannine theology and the roots of Gnosticism
- 2 Adoil outside the cosmos: God before and after Creation in the Enochic tradition
- 3 The old gods of Egypt in lost Hermetica and early Sethianism
- 4 Hidden God and hidden self: The emergence of apophatic anthropology in Christian mysticism
- 5 God's occulted body: On the hiddenness of Christ in Alan of Lille's Anticlaudianus
- Part II The Human Quest for the Hidden God
- Part III Revelations of the Hidden God
- Afterword: Mysticism, Gnosticism, and esotericism as entangled discourses
- Bibliography
- Index
1 - Who is hiding in the Gospel of John? Reconceptualizing Johannine theology and the roots of Gnosticism
from Part I - Concealment of the Hidden God
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Introduction: In search of the hidden God
- Part I Concealment of the Hidden God
- 1 Who is hiding in the Gospel of John? Reconceptualizing Johannine theology and the roots of Gnosticism
- 2 Adoil outside the cosmos: God before and after Creation in the Enochic tradition
- 3 The old gods of Egypt in lost Hermetica and early Sethianism
- 4 Hidden God and hidden self: The emergence of apophatic anthropology in Christian mysticism
- 5 God's occulted body: On the hiddenness of Christ in Alan of Lille's Anticlaudianus
- Part II The Human Quest for the Hidden God
- Part III Revelations of the Hidden God
- Afterword: Mysticism, Gnosticism, and esotericism as entangled discourses
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Histories of the Hidden GodConcealment and Revelation in Western Gnostic, Esoteric, and Mystical Traditions, pp. 13 - 29Publisher: Acumen PublishingPrint publication year: 2013