What is 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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- Full title :What is Gnosticism? / Karen L. King.
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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- Publication Date:2005, ©2003.
- Edition:1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge, Mass
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2005, ©2003.
The Physical Object
- Description:xii, 343 pages ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0674017625, 9780674017627, 067401071X, 9780674010710
- oclc:ocn171292835
- LC Classification:BT1390
- Dewey Decimal:299.932
Table of Contents
Why is Gnosticism so hard to define? -- Gnosticism as heresy -- Adolf von Harnack and the essence of Christianity -- The history of religions school -- Gnosticism reconsidered -- After Nag Hammadi I : categories and origins -- After Nag Hammadi II : typology -- The end of Gnosticism?
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