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SUMMARY:IAHR congress ||| Paper
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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 con
 stant need of theoretical fine-tuning. Over the past decades\, scholars ad
 justed the Nag Hammadi codices and the Manichaean texts to the more genera
 l contexts of “heresy\,” “gnosis\,” and “dualism.” This paper 
 explores the ways in which scholars adapted gnosis\, knowledge religiously
  codified in rituals and teachings\, and often presented as revelations ab
 out invisible realities\, into “Gnosticism\,” a seventeenth-century\, 
 Protestant linguistic invention\, to describe the Catholic Church. It will
  also sketch the trajectories through which philosophical hairesis\, used 
 by second- and third-century Christian writers as a rhetorical tool to des
 cribe religious diversity and\, simultaneously\, to reduce it to a caricat
 ure of itself\, later became “heresies\,” as depicting full-blown reli
 gious\, social\, and political aberrations. Finally\, it will suggest that
  modern scholars follow ancient Christian writers’ use of the same rheto
 ric of difference\, to impose artificial boundaries between the followers 
 of Mani and “real” Christians.\nThis paper will be presented in panel 
 Taxonomies of Religion in the Ancient and Modern Worlds (27-319 | 216).
URL:https://ceres.rub.de/en/events/IAHRpaper2708_21/
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