Gilles Quispel (“KHILL-iss QUISS-pull”) convinced this man’s namesake institute to purchase Codex I (“one”) of the Nag Hammadi library, which is now named for him. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this psychoanalyst and author of a Gnostic set of Seven Sermons to the Dead. He interpreted gnostic mythology with his psychological theory of archetypes.
ANSWER: Carl Jung (“yung”) [or Carl Gustav Jung; accept Jung Codex; accept C. G. Jung Institute]
[10m] The history of the Nag Hammadi codices is recounted in The Gnostic Gospels, a book by this Princeton religion scholar. She also wrote The Origin of Satan and Why Religion?
ANSWER: Elaine Pagels [or Elaine Hiesey]
[10h] This German-American political philosopher drew on Jonas’s reading of Gnosticism as rooted in alienation in his book The New Science of Politics. His critique of totalizing political ideology inspired William F. Buckley’s paraphrase “Don’t immanentize the eschaton!” (“ESS-kuh-tawn”).
ANSWER: Eric Voegelin [or Erich Hermann Wilhelm Vögelin]
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