Cosmological Freedom and the Sons of Knowledge

• Authors: Mikolaj Martinjak

Title variants

PL

Wolność kosmologiczna i synowie wiedzy

Abstracts

PL

Zrozumienie, czym jest gnostycyzm i jego interpretacja, zależy od wielu czynników. Powszechnie w wielu książkach, encyklopediach i artykułach jest on często opisywany jako system dualistyczny, który oddziela ciało i umysł, materię i duchowość lub wiedzę i ignorancję. Artykuł ten oferuje krótki przegląd i możliwe interpretacje dwóch gnostyckich mitów kosmogonicznych - mit Setiana opisany w apokryfie Jana i mit Walentyniana znajdujący się w „Adversus haereses” Ireneusza i „Refutatio omnium haeresium” Hipolita. Te mity lub kosmogonie są używane jako przykład wiedzy tajemnej, która może przynieść kosmologiczną wolność. Wydarzenia w boskiej pleromie i działania Sofii w mitach są badane jako podstawa gnostycznego dogmatu, za którym podążają synowie wiedzy, aby osiągnąć swoją wolność.

EN

The way that Gnosticisim is understood and interpreted depends on many factors. In books, encyclopedias, and articles, it is commonly described as a dualistic system that separates body and mind, material and spiritual or knowledge and ignorance. This article offers a brief overview and possible interpretations of two gnostic cosmogonical myths: Sethian, described in the Apocryphon of John, and the Valentinian myth found in Irenaeus’s Adversus Haeresies and Hippolytus’s Refutatio omnium haeresium. These myths or cosmogonies are used as an example of the secret knowledge that could bring cosmological freedom. Events in the divine pleroma and the actions of Sophia in myths are examined as the basis of a gnostic dogma that the sons of knowledge follow to achieve their freedom.

Keywords

EN

gnosticism; protology; Sophia; knowledge

PL

Gnostycyzm; protologia; Sophia; wiedza

• Publisher: Gdańskie Seminarium Duchowne, Kuria Metropolitalna Gdańska
• Journal: Studia Gdańskie
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 53
• Pages: 97-108

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Mikolaj Martinjak

• University of Zagreb

• https://orcid.org/0000000239825304

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Identifiers

DOI

10.26142/stgd-2023-019

Biblioteka Nauki

23202362