'...indispensable...'
B. Drewery, Journal of Theological Studies, 1983.
'...an important treasure-trove of scholarship on Gnosticism...'
Birger A. Pearson, Religious Studies Review, 1982.
VOLUME I: THE SCHOOL OF VALENTINUS
Preface
Program of the Conference
Staff and Sponsoring Committee
Abbreviations
Part One. Plenary Sessions: Gnosticism and Western Tradition
Henry Chadwick, "The Domestication of Gnosis"
Gilles Quispel, "Gnosis and Psychology"
Carsten Colpe, "The Challenge of Gnostic Thought for Philosophy, Alchemy, and Literature"
Harold Bloom, "Lying Against Time: Gnosis, Poetry, Criticism"
Part Two. Seminar on Valentinian Gnosticism
G.C. Stead, "In Search of Valentinus"
Ugo Bianchi, "Religio-Historical Observations on Valentinianism"
Gilles Quispel, "Valentinian Gnosis and the Apocryphon of John"
R.McL.Wilson, "Valentinianism and the Gospel of Truth"
Rowan Greer, "The Dog and the Mushrooms: Irenaeus's View of the Valentinians Assessed"
John Whittaker, "Self-Generating Principles in Second-Century Gnostic Systems"
Michel Tardieu, "La gnose Valentinienne et les oracles Chaldaïques"
Helmut Koester, "Gnostic Writings as Witnesses for the Development of the Sayings Tradition"
Elaine Pagels, "Gnostic and Orthodox Views of Christ's Passion: Paradigms for the Christian's Response to Persecution?"
Joel Fineman, "Gnosis and the Piety of Metaphor: The Gospel of Truth"
Barbara Aland, "Gnosis und Christentum"
Concluding Discussion
Part Four. Seminar on Sethian Gnosticism
Robert Kraft, "Philo on Seth: Was Philo Aware of Traditions Which Exalted Seth and His Progeny?"
Michael E. Stone, "Report on Seth Traditions in the Armenian Adam Books"
Birger A. Pearson, "The Figure of Seth in Gnostic Literature"
Discussion: Session 1
George W.E. Nickelsburg, "Some Related Traditions in the Apocalypse of Adam, the Books of Adam and Eve, and 1 Enoch"
Carsten Colpe, "Sethian and Zoroastrian Ages of the World"
Discussion: Session 2
Frederik Wisse, "Stalking Those Elusive Sethians"
Kurt Rudolph, "Die 'Sethianische' Gnosis â Eine häresiologische Fiktion?"
Discussion: Session 3
Hans-Martin Schenke, "The Phenomenon and Significance of Gnostic Sethianism"
Alexander Böhlig, "Triade und Trinität in den Schriften von Nag Hammadi"
Discussion: Session 4
James M. Robinson, "Sethians and Johannine Thought: The Trimorphic Protennoia and the Prologue of the Gospel of John"
Discussion: Session 5 Concluding Discussion