Alastair Logan
British theologian
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- Bachelors Theology University of Oxford
- Masters Theology University of Oxford
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Alastair Logan is senior lecturer at the University of Exeter in England. He has been at the university since 1972 and is the longest standing member of its department of theology. Dr Logan is a Christian scholar and the chair EFC at the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter in Exeter. He is known for his work regarding Gnosticism in early Christianity. His best-known published work is Gnostic Truth, Christian Heresy, in which he works to redact the Gnostic movement in early Christianity. Logan ties the Gnostic movement to the worship of Seth and contends that the main thrust of the different factions was a rebellion against the religion or religions of the Empires in the Ancient World.
Alastair Logan's Published Works
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- MARCELLUS OF ANCYRA AND THE COUNCILS OF AD 325: ANTIOCH, ANCYRA, AND NICAEA (1992) (68)
- MARCELLUS OF ANCYRA (PSEUDO-ANTHIMUS), ‘ON THE HOLY CHURCH’: TEXT, TRANSLATION AND COMMENTARY (2000) (65)
- The Gnostics: Myth, Ritual, and Diversity in Early Christianity (2012) (29)
- Gnostic Truth and Christian Heresy: A Study in the History of Gnosticism (1996) (20)
- The Mystery of the Five Seals: Gnostic Initiation Reconsidered (1997) (14)
- The Gnostics: Identifying an Early Christian Cult (2006) (12)
- POST-BAPTISMAL CHRISMATION IN SYRIA: THE EVIDENCE OF IGNATIUS, THE DIDACHE ANDTHE APOSTOLIC CONSTITUTIONS (1998) (6)
- Gnosticism, Judaism, and Egyptian Christianity. (Studies in Antiquity and Christianity, Vol. 5). By Birger A. Pearson. Minneapolis, Fortress Press, 1990. P. xix + 228. No price. (1993) (3)
- At-Onement — The Nature and Challenge of Gnostic Soteriology (1997) (3)
- The Tchacos Codex: Another Document Of The Gnostics? (2010) (2)
- John and the Gnostics: the Significance of the Apocryphon of John for the Debate About the Origins of the Johannine Literature (1991) (2)
- Who Built Old St Peter’s? The Evidence of the Inscriptions and Mosaics (2020) (1)
- The Johannine Literature and the Gnostics (2018) (1)
- Arius (C.256–336) (2013) (1)
- New Testament Apocrypha . Volume One: Gospels and Related Writings. Revised Edition. Edited by Wilhelm Schneemelcher. (English Translation edited by R. McL. Wilson). Cambridge and Louisville, James Clark, Westminster and John Knox Press, 1991. Pp. 560. £30.00. (1995) (1)
- Peter Taylor Forsyth (1996) (1)
- Truth in a Heresy? 4. Gnosticism (2001) (1)
- Book Review: Are These the Words of Jesus? (1990) (0)
- The Gnostic Gospels (2002) (0)
- Book Review: The Word and the Christ: An Essay in Analytic Christology (1992) (0)
- Practicing Gnosis: Ritual, Magic, Theurgy and Liturgy in Nag Hammadi, Manichaean and Other Ancient Literature. Essays in Honor of Birger A. Pearson. Edited by April D. DeConick, Gregory Shaw, and John D. Turner. (2016) (0)
- The development of gnostic theology with special reference to the Apocryphon of John Irenaeus adversus haereses I 29 and 30 and related texts (1980) (0)
- Catholicity and Heresy in the Early Church (review) (2011) (0)
- Cosmology and Fate in Gnosticism and Graeco-Roman Antiquity: Under Pitiless Skies. By Nicola Denzey Lewis. (2015) (0)
- From Dogma to History: How Our Understanding of the Early Church Developed (review) (2007) (0)
- Antioch and Rome: New Testament Cradles of Catholic Christianity . By Raymond E. Brown and John P. Meier. London, Geoffrey Chapman, 1983. Pp. xii + 242. No price. (1985) (0)
- Dark Star: The Rehabilitation of Marcellus of Ancyra Sara Parvis, Marcellus of Ancyra and the Lost Years of the Arian Controversy 325—345 (Oxford: OUP, 2006. £60.00. pp. xi + 291. ISBN 0—19—928013—4) (2007) (0)
- A History of Gnosticism. By Giovanni Filoramo. Translated by Anthony Alcock. Pp. xxii + 269. Oxford: Blackwell, 1990. £29.95. (1991) (0)
- The paintings on the Hermes tomb under San Sebastiano: a new Interpretation (2007) (0)
- The Correspondence of Pope Julius I: Greek and Latin Text and English Translation with Introduction and Commentary . By Glen L. Thompson. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2015. cvi + 259 pages. $39.95 (paper). (2016) (0)
- JUSTIN, PHILOSOPHER AND MARTYR: APOLOGIES by Denis Minns and Paul Parvis (2010) (0)
- Book Review: Ignatius of Antioch: A martyr bishop and the origin of episcopacy (2009) (0)
- Ismo Dunderberg, Beyond Gnosticism: Myth, Lifestyle, and Society in the School of Valentinus (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008), pp. xiv + 317. $50.00, £29.50. (2012) (0)
- MAGI AND VISIONARIES IN GNOSTICISM (1999) (0)
- Book Review: Jesus Christ in Modern Thought (1991) (0)
- Bart D. Ehrman, Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), pp. xviii + 294. £16.99. (2008) (0)
- Book Review: What is a Gnostic Gospel? (2006) (0)
- Oden Salomos . Edited and translated by Michael Lattke. (Fontes Christiani, 19.) Pp. 293. Freiburg: Herder, 1995. DM58 (cloth), DM48 (paper). 3 451 22221 3 ; 3 451 22121 7 (1997) (0)
- Book Review: Gnosticism and the New Testament (1996) (0)
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