Egyptian Light and Hebrew Fire: Theological and Philosophical Roots of Christendom in Evolutionary Perspective

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State University of New York Press, 1 Kas 1991 - 356 sayfa
Egyptian Light and Hebrew Fire focuses on the cosmology of ancient Egypt and on derived traditions. The book outlines how the ancient Egyptian world view affected Hebrew religion, Greek philosophy, Neoplatonism, Gnosticism, and early Christianity. It traces ideological roots of Western civilization back to its earliest known prototypes in the Pyramid and Coffin texts of ancient Egypt. It challenges us to refocus some of our history of early Greek philosophy, and it positively identifies Neoplatonism as a philosophized and scarcely disguised neo-Egyptian theology.

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Preface to Egyptian Light 37
37
Heliopolitan Theology in the Coffin Texts
77
Preface to Hebrew Fire 117
117
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139
Israels Return to Grand Domestication
151
Universalistic Monotheism and Messianism
161
Preface to the Wisdom of Greece 179
179
From Thales to Anaxagoras
197
The NeoEgyptian Philosophy of Plotinus
241
Ammonius and Plotinus
259
The Kingdom of Heaven at Hand
273
Gnosis Competition
291
The Kingdom of Heaven Spreading
309
Bequest of the Mother Religion
319
Bibliography
333
Index
343

Socrates Plato and Aristotle
223

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Karl W. Luckert is Professor of History of Religions at Southwest Missouri State University.

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