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Abstract
The present essay attempts to show how anti-cosmic dualism, characteristic of most ancient Gnostic systems, has left traumatic marks up to the present day on the relations of the human being with the cosmos and nature. By radically opposing Spirit and Matter, God and the Demiurge, the supremely perfect and “foreign” divine world, to this material and evil world – a “strange” land and “forced exile” in which the Gnostic feels “homeless”; by proposing an antithetical metaphysics based on sola gnosis, we can see in ancient Gnosticism the remote premises which have sickened our culture, marked by the conflictual paradigm in the relationship of man with the world and its creatures, and, thus, have contributed to the degradation of the inhabitant-habitat relationship.
| Translated title of the contribution | Gnosticism and anticosmic dualism: remote genesis of a crisis |
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| Original language | Portuguese |
| Pages (from-to) | 39-78 |
| Number of pages | 40 |
| Journal | Ephata |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 4 May 2022 |
Keywords
- Gnosticism
- Dualism
- Cosmos
- Anticosmism
- Evil/Malum
- Ecology
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CITER: Research Centre for Theology and Religious Studies
Boas, A. V. (PI), Palma, A. (Researcher), Teixeira, A. (Researcher), Lamelas, I. (Researcher), Duque, J. M. (Researcher), Carvalho, J. (Researcher), Angélico, J. P. L. (Researcher), Coutinho, J. P. (Researcher), Teixeira, J. R. (Researcher), Rodrigues, L. M. F. (Researcher), Bartolomei, T. (Researcher), Martins, A. (Researcher), Messias, T. (Researcher), Correia, J. A. S. (Researcher), Almendra, L. M. (Researcher), Varanda, M. I. P. (Researcher), Rodrigues, L. M. F. (Researcher), Carvalho, J. (Researcher), Franca, M. (Researcher), Koncz, L. (Researcher), Pereira, A. (Researcher), Carvalho, C. S. (Researcher), Dinis, F. M. D. C. (Researcher), Boareto, J. A. (Researcher), Serrato, A. C. (Researcher), Martins, A. (Researcher), Arêas, C. (Researcher), Candiotto, C. (Researcher), Wehr, C. (Researcher), Schliesser, C. (Researcher), Dickinson, C. (Researcher), Cuda, E. (Researcher), Ausloos, H. (Researcher), Candiotto, J. D. F. (Researcher), Julien, J. (Researcher), Zeferino, J. (Researcher), Oliveira, J. (Researcher), Provinciatto, L. G. (Researcher), Almendra, L. M. (Researcher), Dietrich, L. J. (Researcher), Bingemer, M. C. L. (Researcher), Gomes, P. V. (Researcher), von Sinner, R. (Researcher), Caldeira, S. (Researcher), Dimas, S. (Researcher), Obirek, S. (Researcher), Vilas Boas , S. D. S. (Researcher) & Neto, T. (Researcher)
1/01/20 → 31/12/24
Project: Research