Gnosticism in the Second Century – Francis Crawford Burkitt

Today’s Free book is F.C. Burkitt’s Morse Lectures for 1931 on Gnosticism in the Second Century. It includes discussions of the Gnostics groups of Valentinus, the Barbelo-Gnostics and the Mandaeans.

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Francis Crawford Burkitt [1864-1935], Church & Gnosis. A Study of Christian thought and speculation in the Second Century. The Morse Lectures For 1931. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1932. Hbk. pp.154. [Click here to visit the download page for this title]

Table of Contents

• Preface

1. Introduction
   • Gnosis
   • Primitive Christian Beliefs
   • Paul
   • The Problem of the Old Testament
2. Philpsophical Gnosticism
   • Astrology
   • Soma—Sema
   • Magic
   • The two kinds of Gnostic Love
   • Valentinus
   • The Barbelo-Gnostics
   • Note on the Name Berbelo
3. Egyptian Gnostic Works
   • Pistic Sophia
   • God troubling himself about man
   • Mammon
   • Aberamenthou
   • The Books of Jeu (ʼΙεοῡ)
   • Basilides and Abrasax
4. The Fourth: Mandaism and Christianity
   • The Fourth Gospel and John the Baptist
   • The Mandaeans
   • Note on the phrase Manda d’Hayye
5. The Church and the Old Testament

• Index