Края на времената през погледа на неогносиса (върху материал от текстове на Петър Дънов)
End of times through the eyes of neognosis (on Peter Deunov’s texts)

Summary/Abstract: Some Neognostic texts are in obvious intertextual and many-sided interrelations with Christian texts. An element of the semantic-pragmatic analysis of such texts should therefore be the study of these relationships with the Scriptures in the first place, since it is in their framework that conceptual content is often introduced: content characteristic to Neognostic spirituality through redefining the terms of Christian doctrine – especially those whose content is an essential part of Revelation. These terms (and concepts) undoubtedly include those associated with the end of times. One of these, the subject of this study, is The Second Coming of Christ. The material for analysis is taken mainly from the texts of the series “Sunday talks” by the 20th-century Bulgarian Neognostic Peter Deunov. The study comprises two stages. The first establishes the conceptual content of the term in Christian doctrine (in the text of Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition) as well as in spirituality. In the latter case, both the redefined and the suppressed / ignored elements of the Christian concept are important. The second stage seeks to establish the mechanisms of intertextuality: 1) the mode of relation to the Biblical text and the place this occupies in the author’s text, 2) the immediate and broader context of the quotations from Scripture in the Neognostic text, as well as the relationship between these quotes and the topic of analysed text, and 3) the means of interpreting Biblical quotations, and their function for the “theology“ of the Neognostic text.

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