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SUMMARY:IAHR Kongress ||| Vortrag
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DESCRIPTION:Gnosis\, Hairesis\, and Mani: Fourth-century Religious Vocabul
 ary and Its Modern Adjustments\nEduard Iricinschi (KHK-Fellow)\n“Gnostic
 ism\,”  Heresiology\,” and “Manichaeism” are modern concepts in co
 nstant need of  theoretical fine-tuning. Over the past decades\, scholars 
 adjusted the  Nag Hammadi codices and the Manichaean texts to the more gen
 eral  contexts of “heresy\,” “gnosis\,” and “dualism.” This pa
 per explores the  ways in which scholars adapted gnosis\, knowledge religi
 ously codified in  rituals and teachings\, and often presented as revelati
 ons about  invisible realities\, into “Gnosticism\,” a seventeenth-cen
 tury\,  Protestant linguistic invention\, to describe the Catholic Church.
  It  will also sketch the trajectories through which philosophical hairesi
 s\,  used by second- and third-century Christian writers as a rhetorical t
 ool  to describe religious diversity and\, simultaneously\, to reduce it t
 o a  caricature of itself\, later became “heresies\,” as depicting ful
 l-blown  religious\, social\, and political aberrations. Finally\, it will
  suggest  that modern scholars follow ancient Christian writers’ use of 
 the same  rhetoric of difference\, to impose artificial boundaries between
  the  followers of Mani and “real” Christians.\nVortrag im Rahmen des 
 Panels Taxonomies of Religion in the Ancient and Modern Worlds (27-319 | 2
 16).
URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/de/veranstaltungen/iahrpaper2708_22/
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