Images of Rebirth

Cognitive Poetics and Transformational Soteriology in the Gospel of Philip and the Exegesis on the Soul
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-90-04-18026-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 73, 594 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1202 g

Reihe: Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies

This book offers fresh readings of the Gospel of Philip (NHC II.3) and the Exegesis on the Soul (NHC II.6) from new theoretical and historical perspectives. Eschewing the category of “Gnosticism” and challenging common categorisations, the book analyses the preserved Coptic texts as coherent Christian compositions contemporary with the production and use of the Nag Hammadi Codices. A methodological framework based on Cognitive Poetics is outlined and applied to illuminate how the texts present a soteriology of transformation through religious rituals and practices using complex conceptual and intertextual blends with important polemical and paraenetic functions. The analysis highlights the use of metaphors and allusions in (re-)interpretations of authoritative Scripture, ritual and dogma. Complete Coptic texts and translations are included.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lundhaug, Hugo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie

Über Autor(innen)

Hugo Lundhaug, Dr. art. (2007) in the History of Religions, University of Bergen, is a Senior Research
Fellow at the University of Oslo. He has published articles on the Nag Hammadi texts, early Egyptian
monasticism, and cognitive theory.