Tradition 08 of 33
Gnosticism and esoteric Christianity
Gnostic texts, Christian esotericism, mystical apocrypha, and heterodox cosmologies.
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- Books
- 878
- Earliest
- 1000
- to 2026
- Read free
- 20%
- 174 with public full text
- With covers
- 33%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match793
- Metadata match73
- Query match10
- Source classification (retained through merging)2
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Key subjects
- gnosticism354
- Gnosis141
- Gnosticisme120
- History106
- Philosophy91
- Christian mysticism81
- Religion67
- Social Sciences65
- Arts and Humanities64
- Gnosticismo59
- Mysticism59
- Theology59
- christianity59
- Archeology53
- Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies53
- Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices46
- Art44
- Religious studies42
- Text41
- Non-fiction literature39
- Gnostycyzm37
- Literature36
- グノーシス主義36
- Gnostic literature34
Top languages
- English426 · 49%
- German130 · 15%
- French60 · 7%
- Latin46 · 5%
- Spanish34 · 4%
Notable authors
All authors- Samael Aun Weor17 in this tradition20 books
- 大貫, 隆14 books
- Bishop of Lyon Irenaeus13 books
- Amelia Febriany12 in this tradition25 books
- Hans Jonas8 books
- Irenaeus8 books
- Bentley Layton7 books
- Bishop of Lyon Irenaeus Saint7 books
- Kurt Rudolph7 books
- 荒井, 献7 books
- Bernard McGinn6 in this tradition11 books
- Timothy Freke5 in this tradition8 books
878 books
Gnosis
Christoph Markschies
2003
Gnosis and the New Testament
R. McL. Wilson
1968
Gnostic presences in Ethiopia
Paolo Cartocci, Paul Metcalfe, Gianfrancesco Lusini
2024
Gnostic truth and Christian heresy
A. H. B Logan
1996
Gnostica, Judaica, Catholica
Gilles Quispel, J. van Oort, E.J. Brill
2008
Gnosticism
Benjamin Walker
1989
Gnosticism and Christianity in Roman and Coptic Egypt
Birger A Pearson
2004
Gnosticism and the New Testament
Pheme Perkins
1993
Gnosticism in the early Church
David M. Scholer
1993
Gnosticism, the coming apostasy
D. M. Panton
1925
L'Allogène
Wolf-Peter Funk
2004Coptic
L'adversaire de Dieu
Matthias Morgenstern, Volker Henning Drecoll, Hendrik Stoppel, Michael Tilly
2016
Message to Garcia (CD Spoken Audio .wav File)
Elbert Hubbard
2000
Modern Buddhist and Christian mysticism
Charles M. Mueller, Peter Richardson
2025
Mystery and secrecy in the Nag Hammadi collection and other ancient literature
Christian H. Bull, Liv Ingeborg Lied, John Douglas Turner
2012
Nag Hammadi bibliography
David M Scholer
1971
Nag Hammadi codex II, 2-7
Bentley Layton
1989Coptic
Nag Hammadi texts and the Bible
Craig A. Evans, Robert L. Webb, Richard A. Wiebe
1993
Nag Hammadi texts in the history of religions
Søren Giversen, Tage Petersen, Jørgen Podemann Sørensen, International Conference on the Nag Hammadi Texts in the History of Religions
2002
Neoplatonism and gnosticism
International Conference on Neoplatonism and Gnosticism
1992
No longer Jews
Carl B. Smith
2004
Plotinus
John Rist
1977
Proceedings
Geo Widengren, David Hellholm
1977
Reconstructing the tradition of Sophia in gnostic literature
Deirdre Joy Good
1987