Title Statements
- 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:2003.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge, Mass
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2003.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xii, 343 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- oclc:ocn832960415
- LC Classification:BT1390
- Dewey Decimal:273.1
Table of 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?
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