
Название: Gnostic Wars: The Cold War in the Context of a History of Western Spirituality
Автор: Stefan Rossbach
Издательство: Edinburgh University Press
Год: 1999
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 269
Размер: 19.3 Мб
Язык: English
In this unique exposition of important and yet often neglected developments in the history of Western spirituality, Stefan Rossbach reminds us of the philosophical and spiritual underpinnings of the Cold War era, drawing on the traditions of apocalypticism, millenarianism and 'Gnostic' spirituality. Beginning with the 'Gnostic' systems of late Antiquity, the analysis follows 'lines of meaning' which extend through the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, right up to the present.