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?