List of issues > Series «Political Science and Religion Studies». 2016. Vol. 15
To the Question of the Influence of Zoroastrianism on the Cosmology of the Christian Gnostics
Author(s)
A. E. Smirnov, S. S. Kulpinov
Abstract
The article is devoted to possible influences of Zoroastrianism on the cosmology of Christian Gnostic teachings. The authors determine the boundaries of Christian Gnosticism, and basic principles of its cosmology. The study examines main Gnostic teachings, and the way the cosmology of Zoroastrian ideas about the world influenced them.
Keywords
Zoroastrianism, Christian Gnosticism, dualism, cosmology, demiurgism
UDC
295.1