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 wa...

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Main Author: DeConick, April D. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2023
In: Gnosis
Year: 2023, Volume: 8, Issue: 2, Pages: 133-166
Further subjects:B cognitive script
B cognitive frame
B Gnostic
B Imagination
B productive imagination
B reproductive imagination
B Social Memory
B idealization
B radical imaginary
B Gnosticism
B Social Imaginary
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