Tobias Churton
Tobias Churton (born 1960) is a British scholar of Rosicrucianism, Freemasonry, Gnosticism, and other esoteric movements. He has a master's degree in theology from Brasenose College, Oxford. He is the author of Gnostic Philosophy, The Magus of Freemasonry, and Freemasonry and other works on esotericism.
Tobias Churton
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- 1960 · Sutton Coldfield.
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- United Kingdom
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- film director · musician · writer · historian · university teacher · theologian
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- religion · esotericism
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- Fairfax School
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- English
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Tobias Churton (born 1960) is a British scholar of Rosicrucianism, Freemasonry, Gnosticism, and other esoteric movements. He has a master's degree in theology from Brasenose College, Oxford. He is the author of Gnostic Philosophy, The Magus of Freemasonry, and Freemasonry and other works on esotericism.
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Churton has made several television programmes, including Gnostics, a four-part drama-documentary series made for Channel 4 (UK) by Border TV (together with an accompanying book) which was broadcast in 1987 and repeated in 1990. Churton's studies include critique of heresiologists' perceptions on the role of women in these "unorthodox" Christian movements. He has also written about Elias Ashmole, and Rosicrucianism. Churton's biography of Aleister Crowley was released in 2011. Subsequently, he has published four more biographical volumes on Crowley - The Beast in Berlin, Aleister Crowley in America, Aleister Crowley in India, and Aleister Crowley in England: The Return of the Great Beast, the last biography released in 2021.
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Tobias Churton was born on 1 January 1960.
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- 1.Ardinger, Barbara. Pagan Every Day: Finding the Extraordinary in Our Ordinary Lives. 180. May 2024.
- 2.Gadelica, C. Recent and Upcoming Conferences. Aries. 2008.
- 3.Goodacre, M. How Reliable is the Story of the Nag Hammadi Discovery?. Journal for the Study of the New Testament. 35. 4. 303–322. 2013. 10.1177/0142064X13482243.
- 4.Powell, W. E. A Very American Jihad: Our Barely Civil War. The Journal of Families in Society. 2004.
- 5.Canonbury Masonic Research Centre. Freemasonry and Religion: Many Faiths, One Brotherhood. 2006. 978-0954349820.
- 6.Chaitow, S. Seeking the Light: Freemasonry and Initiatic Traditions. Journal for Research into Freemasonry. 2009.
- 7.Doyle White, Ethan. Tobias Churton, Aleister Crowley: The Biography (London: Watkins Publishing, 2011), 496 pp., £19.27 (cloth), £14.99 (paper). Henrik Bogdan and Martin P. Starr, eds., Aleister Crowley and Western Esotericism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), 432 pp. Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies. 15. 1-2. 2014-08-12. 10.1558/pome.v15i1-2.305.
- 8.Dew, Spencer. ALEISTER CROWLEY IN PARIS: SEX, ART, AND MAGICK IN THE CITY OF LIGHT. By TobiasChurton. Rochester, Vermont: Inner Traditions, 2022. 368 pp. $40.00, hardback. Religious Studies Review. 50. 3. 595–595. September 2024. 0319-485X.
- 9.Martelli, Matteo. The First Alchemists. The Spiritual & Practical Origins of the Noble & Holy Art: By Tobias Churton. Pp. 320, illus., index. Inner Traditions: Rochester, Vermont. 2023. £20.00 (paperback). : 978-1-64411-683-8. Ambix. 73. 1. 105–106. 2026-01-02. 0002-6980.
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