What Is Gnosticism? (QuakerBooks)

What Is Gnosticism?

BY KAREN KING

Brief Description:
King shows how historians have been misled by ancient Christian polemicists who attacked Gnostic beliefs as a "dark double" against which the new faith could define itself. Having identified past distortions, she is able to offer a new and clarifying definition of Gnosticism. Her book is thus both a thorough and innovative introduction to the twentieth-century study of Gnosticism and a revealing exploration of the concept of heresy as a tool in forming religious identity.

Belknap Press 2005 368 PP. Paper

$16.95 (in stock)

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