The One God Is No Simple Matter

April D. DeConick

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Pages:: 263–292

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004438088_013

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According to the primary sources, Gnostics in antiquity worshipped a supreme transcendent God and not the creator deity YHWH. Scholars, however, have repeated the notion that Gnostics were dualists and polytheists, in contrast to monotheists. But this is grossly misleading. Monotheism and polytheism make a dichotomy that constrains the evidence to either-or boxes, leaving us scrambling to explain the excluded middle, a vast amount of evidence in Gnostic sources attesting a conversation about the One God. In particular, the merger between the creator God YHWH and the transcendent God of the philosophers was not assumed anywhere until the Apologists made the case.

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Monotheism and Christology in Greco-Roman Antiquity

Series: Novum Testamentum, Supplements, Volume: 180

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004438088

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 13 Aug 2020

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