Apocalypse of the Alien God: Platonism and the Exile of Sethian Gnosticism
ISBN: 9780812209228
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Pennsylvania Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Apocalyptic literature -- History and criticism; Gnostic literature -- History and criticism; Gnosticism; Neoplatonism;

Apocalypse of the Alien God shows that the fundamental break between the Platonic tradition and Judeo-Christianity began when the mystic Plotinus rejected the teachings of the Sethians, an influential group of Gnostics who operated at the intersection of Hellenic, Jewish, and Christian thought.


Dylan M. Burns is Research Associate at Leipzig University.
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