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