What is Gnosticism? /
King, Karen L.
What is Gnosticism? / Karen L. King. - Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003. - xii, 343 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-275) and index.
Why is gnosticism so hard to define? -- Gnosticism as heresy -- Adolf von Harnack and the essence of Christianity -- History of the religions school -- Gnosticism reconsidered -- After Nag Hammadi I, categories and origins -- After Nag Hammadi II, typology -- End of gnosticism?
067401071X (alk. paper)
2003041851
GBA3-Z3485
Harnack, Adolf von, 1851-1930.
Nag Hammadi codices.
Gnosticism.
BT 1390 / .K55 2003
What is Gnosticism? / Karen L. King. - Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003. - xii, 343 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-275) and index.
Why is gnosticism so hard to define? -- Gnosticism as heresy -- Adolf von Harnack and the essence of Christianity -- History of the religions school -- Gnosticism reconsidered -- After Nag Hammadi I, categories and origins -- After Nag Hammadi II, typology -- End of gnosticism?
067401071X (alk. paper)
2003041851
GBA3-Z3485
Harnack, Adolf von, 1851-1930.
Nag Hammadi codices.
Gnosticism.
BT 1390 / .K55 2003