The Allure of Gnosticism The Gnostic Experience in Jungian Philosophy and Contemporary Culture

by Segal, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780812692785
• ISBN10: 0812692780
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-01-29
• Publisher: Open Court

Summary

"This book is a concatenation of sparks of religious light.... Gnosticism is to be understood as the ongoing formulation of freshly imagined spirits, a logos of what we can know about those moments when the religious experience itself breaks through the veils of dogma to assert the psychological reality of a living redemptive godhead". -- John Beebe Editor, Journal of Analytical Psychology

Table of Contents

Contributors	vii
Introduction	1	(9)
Robert A. Segal
Gnosis and Psychology	10	(16)
Gilles Quispel
Jung's Fascination with Gnosticism	26	(13)
Robert A. Segal
The Gnostic Critique, Past and Present	39	(15)
Murray Stein
The Evolution of the Soul	54	(16)
June Singer
``Begotten, Not Created'': The Gnostic Use of Language in Jungian Perspective	70	(14)
Schuyler Brown
Mary Magdalene in the Canonical and Gnostic Gospels	84	(10)
Bradley TePaske
Sex, Suffering, and Incarnation: Female Symbolism in Gnosticism	94	(13)
Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley
The ``Mystery of Marriage'' in the Gospel of Philip	107	(10)
Elaine Pagels
Gnosticism and Modern Nihilism	117	(19)
Hans Jonas
Eric Voegelin and the Changing Perspective on the Gnostic Features of Modernity	136	(11)
Stephen A. McKnight
Between Gnosticism and Jehovah: The Dilemma in Kafka's Religious Attitude	147	(20)
Walter H. Sokel
Leaving Home: A Gnostic Note in the Lives of C. G. Jung and T. S. Eliot	167	(6)
Daniel A. Lindley
Buddhism and Gnosis	173	(17)
Edward Conze
Parallels to Gnosticism in Pure Land Buddhism	190	(9)
Kenneth O'Neill
The Experience of Gnosis	199	(5)
Rosamonde Miller
The Revival of Ancient Gnosis	204	(21)
Richard Smith
Index	225