What Is Gnosticism?

Name: What Is Gnosticism?
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ISBN: 9780674017627

ISBN-10: 0674017625

ISBN-13: 9780674017627

Edition: 2003

Authors: Karen L. King

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A distinctive Christian heresy? A competitor of burgeoning Christianity? A pre-Christian folk religion traceable to "Oriental syncretism"? How do we account for the disparate ideas, writings, and practices that have been placed under the Gnostic rubric? To do so, Karen King says, we must first disentangle modern historiography from the Christian discourse of orthodoxy and heresy that has pervaded--and distorted--the story. Exciting discoveries of previously unknown ancient writings--especially the forty-six texts found at Nag Hammadi in 1945--are challenging historians of religion to rethink not only what we mean by Gnosticism but also the standard account of Christian origins. The Gospel…

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List price: $24.50
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 4/30/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 366
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Preface


Abbreviations


Introduction



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? Note on Methodology


Bibliography


Notes


Index