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
BT1390 / .K55 2003
299.932 K52W 273.1
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
0674017625 067401071X 9780674010710 9780674017627
2003041851
GBA3Z3485 bnb GBA518576 bnb
Harnack, Adolf von, 1851-1930
Nag Hammadi codices
Gnosticism
BT1390 / .K55 2003
299.932 K52W 273.1