April D Deconick
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1482632 |
|---|---|
| NOME | April D Deconick |
| PRENOMES | April D |
| SOBRENOME | Deconick |
| ASSINATURA | DECONICK A D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Rice University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6279-0023 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 1 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2001 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
The Interaction of Ancient and Modern Gnostic Imaginaries and the Creation of the Sethian Unicorn
The interpretation of artifacts, like texts, are controlled by the interpreter’s embodied cognitive operations, which include the running of specific cognitive frames, knowledge domains, and cultural scripts. These operations produce new imaginaries about the artifacts, imaginaries that potentially are unicorns. These new imaginaries, in term, affect how the artifact is placed in the past and interpreted going forward. In this way, new imaginarie…
Eugnostos and The Sophia of Jesus Christ as Third-Century Ecumenical Gnostic Christofictions
This article argues that Eugnostos and its adaptation The Sophia of Jesus Christ , represent third-century Christian compositions that were created by Christians who collected second-century Gnostic artifacts because they were interested in Jesus esoterica. They believed that these texts were old and original to Christianity, preserving authentic wisdom about the nature of God, the world, and our existence. They relied on these texts to create th…
The Gnostic Imagination and Its Imaginaries
Applying cognitive theories about human creativity, this paper theorizes how the Gnostic as an identity is an idealization of a discrete metaphysics or spirituality forged by the human imagination and diversified as radical imaginaries and social imaginaries. The emergence of Gnostic spirituality was made possible because a novel cognitive script had developed that theorized religion in kinfolk terms, rather than conventional slave, vassal, or cl…
Artifact Migration and the Transport of Ancient Knowledge into Modernity
How does ancient Gnostic spirituality transform American culture and religion? This is a complex question that has captured my attention and imagination. As I have studied this question, I have come to recognize the centrality of artifacts-the tomes, stones, and bones studied by academic specialists and scholars-and their migration into modern culture by academics, religious leaders, journalists, and other producers of media. Artifact migration i…
The Sociology of Gnostic Spirituality
This paper owes debt to the field of study known as sociology of knowledge, which is interested in the social location of groups and their constructions of knowledge and reality. This project, however, is not about ordinary knowledge, but how gnosis, the direct knowledge of a transcendent God beyond the traditional Gods, became the foundation of a new form of spirituality in antiquity, and how this form of Gnostic spirituality has reemerged in mo…
Special Issue
Naturally supernatural
Deviant Christians
This paper explores the relationship between deviance and esotericism, particularly as this relationship relates to the emergence of new religious movements and the processes of social accommodation and resistance. Applying sociological models for the study of deviance, I show how emergent Catholics use a variety of accommodation strategies to better fit into Roman religious expectations, constructing a public face to their worship along with anc…
Soul Flights
Narratives of soul flights are common in ancient Mediterranean literature, sharing many similarities such as the movement of the soul along a vertical path that is associated with life and death. But they also display significant differences such as peculiar accounts of cosmic realms, idiosyncratic reasons for soul flights, and wild diversity of associated rituals. Historical critical studies of soul flights have been unable to address successful…
Histories of the Hidden God
Gnostic Countercultures
The Countercultural Gnostic
Because the gnostic heresy is a social construction imposed by the early Catholics on religious people they identified as transgressors of Christianity, scholars are entertaining the idea that ancient gnostics were actually alternative Christians. While gnostics may have been made into heretics by the early Catholics, this does not erase the fact that gnostics were operating in the margins of the conventional religions with a countercultural pers…
Introducing Gnosis
Apocalypse of the Alien God
The Road for the Soul Is through the Planets
In 178ce, Celsus, a Greek philosopher, wrote a scathing criticism of Christianity called Logos Alethes or The True Doctrine. Origen, seventy years later, wrote a massive eight-volume reply called Against Celsus. Descriptions of the diagram run throughout Origen's refutation: the description that Celsus made of the diagram in The True Doctrine alongside the description of a copy of the diagram that Origen possessed. Origen appears to be giving us …
Thomas, Gospel of
The Gospel of Thomas (GT) is an ancient Christian text whose peculiarities are fiercely debated among scholars.
“What did Ezekiel See?” Christian Exegesis of Ezekiel's Vision of the Chariot from Irenaeus to Gregory the Great – By Angela Russell Christman
Monastic Bodies
Washing in the Water
Fake Prophecy and Polluted Sacraments
The Secret History of Hermes Trismegistus
Nazirites in Late Second Temple Judaism
The Solution to the “Son of Man” Problem – By Maurice Casey
The World of Early Egyptian Christianity
The Wisdom of Egypt
Soul Flights
Narratives of soul flights are common in ancient Mediterranean literature, sharing many similarities such as the movement of the soul along a vertical path that is associated with life and death. But they also display significant differences such as peculiar accounts of cosmic realms, idiosyncratic reasons for soul flights, and wild diversity of associated rituals. Historical critical studies of soul flights have been unable to address successful…
The True Mysteries
The True Mysteries
L'A. reconstitue les attitudes envers le mariage de l'Evangile de Philippe et montre comment les valentiniens se separent d'autres gnostiques plus encratistes, et comment un mariage sacramentel avait cours chez eux, en s'aidant aussi des textes de Clement d'Alexandrie
Voices of the Mystics. Early Christian Discourse in the Gospels of John and Thomas and Other Ancient Christian Literature
The Wisdom of Egypt
Jews or Christians? The Followers of Jesus in Search of Their Own Identity – By Giorgio Jossa
A Synopsis of the Apocryphal Nativity and Infancy Narratives – By J. K. Elliott
Early Christian Voices in Texts, Traditions, and Symbols
“What did Ezekiel See?” Christian Exegesis of Ezekiel's Vision of the Chariot from Irenaeus to Gregory the Great – By Angela Russell Christman
Monastic Bodies
Washing in the Water
Fake Prophecy and Polluted Sacraments
The Secret History of Hermes Trismegistus
Nazirites in Late Second Temple Judaism
The Solution to the “Son of Man” Problem – By Maurice Casey
The World of Early Egyptian Christianity
Thomas, Gospel of
The Gospel of Thomas (GT) is an ancient Christian text whose peculiarities are fiercely debated among scholars.
The Road for the Soul Is through the Planets
In 178ce, Celsus, a Greek philosopher, wrote a scathing criticism of Christianity called Logos Alethes or The True Doctrine. Origen, seventy years later, wrote a massive eight-volume reply called Against Celsus. Descriptions of the diagram run throughout Origen's refutation: the description that Celsus made of the diagram in The True Doctrine alongside the description of a copy of the diagram that Origen possessed. Origen appears to be giving us …
Apocalypse of the Alien God
Histories of the Hidden God
Gnostic Countercultures
The Countercultural Gnostic
Because the gnostic heresy is a social construction imposed by the early Catholics on religious people they identified as transgressors of Christianity, scholars are entertaining the idea that ancient gnostics were actually alternative Christians. While gnostics may have been made into heretics by the early Catholics, this does not erase the fact that gnostics were operating in the margins of the conventional religions with a countercultural pers…
Introducing Gnosis
Soul Flights
Narratives of soul flights are common in ancient Mediterranean literature, sharing many similarities such as the movement of the soul along a vertical path that is associated with life and death. But they also display significant differences such as peculiar accounts of cosmic realms, idiosyncratic reasons for soul flights, and wild diversity of associated rituals. Historical critical studies of soul flights have been unable to address successful…
Deviant Christians
This paper explores the relationship between deviance and esotericism, particularly as this relationship relates to the emergence of new religious movements and the processes of social accommodation and resistance. Applying sociological models for the study of deviance, I show how emergent Catholics use a variety of accommodation strategies to better fit into Roman religious expectations, constructing a public face to their worship along with anc…
The Sociology of Gnostic Spirituality
This paper owes debt to the field of study known as sociology of knowledge, which is interested in the social location of groups and their constructions of knowledge and reality. This project, however, is not about ordinary knowledge, but how gnosis, the direct knowledge of a transcendent God beyond the traditional Gods, became the foundation of a new form of spirituality in antiquity, and how this form of Gnostic spirituality has reemerged in mo…
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