In Search of Truth ─ Augustine, Manichaeism and Other Gnosticism: Studies for Johannes van Oort at Sixty

In honor of theologian Johannes van Oort, this volume presents 35 studies on Augustine, Manichaeism, and other Gnosticism. Scholars from around the world discuss Augustine's Confessions, Sermons, letters, and De Haeresibus, as well as Augustine on grace and pluralism, and Augustinian “Gnosis”; Manichaeism and origins and myth, doctrines and cult, and diffusion and art; the relationship between Manichaeism and Augustine in terms of doctrines, polemics, and debates; and Gnosticism and apocryphal texts, sources of Hippolytus' Refutatio, the Gospel of Judas, and modern Yesidi Gnosticism. Some essays are in German or French. Annotation ©2017 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Jacob Albert van den Berg, Ph.D. (2009) in Theology (cum laude) at the Radboud University of Nijmegen, is minister in the Refomred Church in the Netherlands (Groningen). Annemare Kotze, D.Litt. (2003) in Latin Literature, University of Stellenbosch, is a Lecturer in Latin, Greek and Ancient Cultures at the University of Stellenbosch.Tobias Nicklas, Dr. theol. (2000), Habilitation (2004), is currently Professor of New Testament Studies at the University of Regensburg, Germany.Madeleine Scopello, Doctor in Classics and Philosophy, University of Turin; HDR, University of Sorbonne, Paris, is Directeur de Recherche at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique at the University of Sorbonne, Paris.