Search for dissertations about: "Modern gnosticism"

Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the words Modern gnosticism.

2. 1. The Spirit of Revolt : Nikolai Berdiaev's Existential Gnosticism

   Author : Fabian Linde; Per-Arne Bodin; Elena Namli; Irene Masing-Delic; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Russian philosophy; Berdyaev; Berdiaev; Hans Jonas; Russian religious philosophy; gnosticism; gnosis; existentialism; gnostic return; Slavic languages; Slaviska språk; slaviska språk; Slavic Languages;

   Abstract : This thesis is a study of the Russian religious philosopher Nikolai Berdiaev (1874-1948). The aim of the thesis is to re-examine the alleged gnostic subtext in Berdiaev’s thought by exploring a number of interrelated motifs in his world outlook, teaching on man and theory of knowledge. READ MORE

4. 2. Flannery O'Connor's View of the Modern Alienation from Sacramental Religion

   Author : Inger B Törnqvist; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; secular humanism; Social Darwinism; Progressivism; Southern literature; natural theology; Southern Protestant fundamentalism; “Americanism Debate“; modern gnosticism; gnostic; Jansenism; Neoscholasticism; American Catholicism; Sacramental religion; O’Connor; Joyce; psychology; sociology; History of the Christian church; Kristna kyrkans historia;

   Abstract : Mary Flannery O’Connor (1925-64) was born in Savannah, Georgia as the only child of the American Irish Catholics Edward Francis O’Connor, Jr. and Regina Cline O’Connor. In 1952 her first novel Wise Blood, in 1955 the short story collection A Good Man Is Hard to Find, and in 1960 her second novel, The Violent Bear It Away were published. READ MORE