TY  - BOOK
AU  - King,Karen L.
TI  - What is Gnosticism?
SN  - 0674017625
AV  - BT1390 .K55 2003
U1  - 299.932 K52W 21
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
KW  - Harnack, Adolf von,
KW  - Nag Hammadi codices
KW  - Gnosticism
N1  - 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?
N2  - 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
ER  -