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What is Gnosticism? /

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, ©2003Description: xii, 343 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0674017625
  • 067401071X
  • 9780674010710
  • 9780674017627
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: What is Gnosticism?DDC classification:
  • 299.932 K52W 21
  • 273.1 21
LOC classification:
  • BT1390 .K55 2003
Contents:
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?
Summary: 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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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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