Word and Glory challenges recent claims that Gnosticism, especially as expressed in the Nag Hammadi tractate Trimorphic Protennoia, is the most natural and illuminating background for understanding the Prologue of the Fourth Gospel. Scriptural allusions and interpretive traditio…
"Die Mandäer, Nachkommen einer gnostischen Religionsgemeinschaft, kennen einen besonderen Text, Haran Gauaita. Dieser Text enthält anders als die übrige mandäische Literatur, die grundsätzlich religiöser Natur ist, Informationen, die sich trotz Mythologisierung für die kaum beka…
This book presents a comparison of the Gnostic worldviews of Carl G. Jung and science-fiction author, Philip K. Dick, two figures who have done far more than most to revive an interest in the Gnostic tradition in the modern world. Despite profoundly different approaches - one wa…
The Gospels of the Marginalized provides an exciting new study of three of the most maligned figures in the New Testament story of Jesus: Thomas, usually considered the quintessential doubter among the disciples; Mary Magdalene, characterized as a repentant prostitute during muc…