What is Gnosticism? /

King, Karen L., 1954-

What is Gnosticism? / - Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, ©2003 - xii, 343 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-275) and index

Why is gnosticism so hard to define? -- Gnosticism as heresy -- Adolf von Harnack and the essence of Christianity -- History of religions school -- Gnosticism reconsidered -- After Nag Hammadi I, categories and origins -- After Nag Hammadi II, typology -- End of gnosticism?

A study of gnosticism examines the various ways early Christians strove to define themselves in a pluralistic Roman society, while questioning the traditional ideas of heresy and orthodoxy that have previously influenced historians

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Harnack, Adolf von, 1851-1930


Nag Hammadi codices


Gnosticism

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