@article{ART002097513},
author={Horace Jeffery HODGES},
title={Crossing the Sacred-Profane Divide in Gnosticism and John’s Gospel},
journal={탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities},
issn={2092-6081},
year={2011},
volume={4},
number={1},
pages={163-176},
doi={10.22901/trans.2011.4.1.163}
TY - JOUR
AU - Horace Jeffery HODGES
TI - Crossing the Sacred-Profane Divide in Gnosticism and John’s Gospel
JO - 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities
PY - 2011
VL - 4
IS - 1
PB - Ewha Institute for the Humanities: EIH
SP - 163
EP - 176
SN - 2092-6081
AB - Marcel Mauss and Mary Douglas together offer a theoretical understanding of gift-giving that enables us to draw a crucial distinction between the crossing of the sacred-profane boundary in Gnostic systems and the Johannine one. This distinction is particularly evident when such crossing leads to transactions involving the offer of nourishment. The sacred and the profane do not easily mix in any system, but in Gnostic texts and John's Gospel, the conflict between these dynamic forces of the two realms is presented as working itself out differently. This conflict is irresolvable in the former due to its substance dualism, but it is resolvable in the latter due to its ethical dualism. Gifts of nourishment accentuate this difference, such that the reciprocity and the ambiguity that Mauss sees in gift-giving work out their implications differently. Conflict is shown to be accentuated in Gnostic systems, but ultimately resolved in the Johannine one.
KW - boundary;gift;Gnosticism;Gospel of John;nourishment;reciprocity
DO - 10.22901/trans.2011.4.1.163
ER -
Horace Jeffery HODGES. (2011). Crossing the Sacred-Profane Divide in Gnosticism and John’s Gospel. 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities, 4(1), 163-176.
Horace Jeffery HODGES. 2011, "Crossing the Sacred-Profane Divide in Gnosticism and John’s Gospel", 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities, vol.4, no.1 pp.163-176. Available from: doi:10.22901/trans.2011.4.1.163
Horace Jeffery HODGES "Crossing the Sacred-Profane Divide in Gnosticism and John’s Gospel" 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities 4.1 pp.163-176 (2011) : 163.
Horace Jeffery HODGES. Crossing the Sacred-Profane Divide in Gnosticism and John’s Gospel. 2011; 4(1), 163-176. Available from: doi:10.22901/trans.2011.4.1.163
Horace Jeffery HODGES. "Crossing the Sacred-Profane Divide in Gnosticism and John’s Gospel" 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities 4, no.1 (2011) : 163-176.doi: 10.22901/trans.2011.4.1.163
Horace Jeffery HODGES. Crossing the Sacred-Profane Divide in Gnosticism and John’s Gospel. 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities, 4(1), 163-176. doi: 10.22901/trans.2011.4.1.163
Horace Jeffery HODGES. Crossing the Sacred-Profane Divide in Gnosticism and John’s Gospel. 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities. 2011; 4(1) 163-176. doi: 10.22901/trans.2011.4.1.163
Horace Jeffery HODGES. Crossing the Sacred-Profane Divide in Gnosticism and John’s Gospel. 2011; 4(1), 163-176. Available from: doi:10.22901/trans.2011.4.1.163
Horace Jeffery HODGES. "Crossing the Sacred-Profane Divide in Gnosticism and John’s Gospel" 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities 4, no.1 (2011) : 163-176.doi: 10.22901/trans.2011.4.1.163
