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Fragments of a Faith Forgotten
By George Robert Stow Mead
Length18h 10m
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"Fragments of a Faith Forgotten", written by George Robert Stow Mead in 1900, is one of the best books about the Gnostics written prior to the Nag Hammadi discoveries. Mead, who also translated the "Pistis Sophia", summarises what was known about the Gnostics at the turn of the 20th century. At that time, a better picture of the Gnostics was emerging, based on several papyri which had been recently discovered.
It was becoming increasingly obvious that early Christianity was a wide spectrum of sects, the record of which had been subsequently forgotten or suppressed by the Church. The Gnostics had deep connections with ancient Mystery religions, Pythagoreanism, Hinduism and other ancient beliefs. Most of the sacred texts of Gnosticism were long lost or survived only in small quotes.
Mead draws on information provided both by the Early Church Fathers hostile to Gnosticism, and the available corpus of actual Gnostic documents at the time, cryptic and fragmentary as it was. He includes excerpts from previously untranslated manuscripts, and extensive summaries of the "Pistis Sophia" and the writings of the critics of Gnosticism. This book is required reading for anyone who wants to understand Gnosticism and the development of early Christianity.
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GenreSpirituality and Religion
Length18 hrs 10 mins
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Publish dateNov 25, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2SOME ROUGH OUTLINES OF THE BACKGROUND OF THE GNOSIS
3Preliminary Considerations
4Greece
5Egypt
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6Philo On The Contemplative Life
7Jewry
8Alexandria
9GENERAL AND GNOSTIC CHRISTIANITY
10The Evolution Of Catholic Christianity
11The Ebionites
12The Essenes
13The Tendencies Of Gnosticism
14The Literature And Sources Of Gnosticism
15THE GNOSIS ACCORDING TO ITS FOES
16Some Gnostic Fragments Recovered From The Polemical Writings Of The Church Fathers
17The "Simonians."
18Dositheus
19"Simon Magus."
20Menander
21Saturninus
22The "Ophites."
23An Anonymous System From Irenæus
24An Early "Ophite" System
25The Naasseni
26The Peratæ
27The Sethians
28The Docetæ
29Monoïmus
30The So-Called Cainites
31The Carpocratians
32"Epiphanes."
33Cerinthus
34Nicolaus
35Cerdo
36Marcion
37Apelles
38The Basilidian Gnosis
39The Valentinian Movement
40Valentinus
411. From A Letter
422. From A Letter
433. From The Letter To Agathōpus
444. From A Homily
455. A Few Sentences Preserved In The Controversial Matter Of Clement Following The Above Quotation, And Probably Taken From A Writing Of Valentinus
466. From The Letter On The Community Of Friends
477. A Very Doubtful Fragment From Eulogius Of Alexandria Writing At The End Of The Sixth Century
488. The Myth Which Valentinus Made
499. From A Psalm
50Some Outlines Of Æonology
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