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Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World: Essays in Honour of John D. Turner
Author(s): Kevin Corrigan (Editor), Tuomas Rasimus
- Publisher: Brill
- Publication Date: July 25, 2013
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 756 pages
- ISBN-10: 9004223835
- ISBN-13: 9789004223837
Book Description
This Festschrift honors the life and work of John D. Turner (Charles J. Mach University Professor of Classics and History at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln) on the occasion of his 75th birthday. Professor Turner’s work has been of profound importance for the study of the interaction between Greek philosophy and Gnosticism in late antiquity. This volume contains essays by international scholars on a broad range of topics that deal with Sethian, Valentinian and other early Christian thought, as well as with Platonism and Neoplatonism, and offer a variety of perspectives spanning intellectual history, Greek and Coptic philology, and the study of religions.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Great FS for a great scholar, excellently edited by a team led by Tuomas Rasimus: Sidnie White Crawford, John D. Turner.” – J. van Oort, in: Vigiliae Christianae 68 (2014)
“ein aufschlussreicher und instruktiver Band” – Barbara Aland, in: Theologische Literaturzeitung 140 (2015)
“ein aufschlussreicher und instruktiver Band” – Barbara Aland, in: Theologische Literaturzeitung 140 (2015)
About the Author
Kevin Corrigan is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities and Director of the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts at Emory University. His recent works include Evagrius and Gregory: Mind, Soul and Body in the 4th Century (Ashgate, 2009), Religion and Philosophy in the Platonic and Neoplatonic Traditions (ed. with J. D. Turner and P. Wakefield, Akademia Verlag, 2012), and Reason, Faith and Otherness in Neoplatonic and Early Christian Thought (Ashgate, 2013).
Tuomas Rasimus is an Academy of Finland Research Fellow at the University of Helsinki, and an Associate Professor at Université Laval. He has published on Gnosticism, Early Christianity and Neoplatonism, and his recent works include Paradise Reconsidered in Gnostic Mythmaking (Brill, 2009), The Legacy of John: Second-Century Reception of the Fourth Gospel (ed., Brill, 2010), and Stoicism in Early Christianity (ed. with T. Engberg-Pedersen and I. Dunderberg, Baker Academic, 2010).
