What is Gnosticism? by Karen L. King

What is Gnosticism?

Karen L. King

368 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history religion informative medium-paced

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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 r...

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