The Gnostics: Identifying an Early Christian Cult. By Alastair H. B. Logan
In the preface to an earlier book, Alastair Logan described his thesis supervisor as ‘a demon for detail and a stickler for accuracy’. Reading Dr Logan's latest book, his former supervisor cannot help recalling something about a pot calling a kettle black! For the second time recently (cf. JTS,...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2007
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2007, Volume: 58, Issue: 2, Pages: 691-693 |
| Review of: | The Gnostics (New York : Clark, 2006) (Wilson, R. McL)
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| Further subjects: | B
Book review
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| Summary: | In the preface to an earlier book, Alastair Logan described his thesis supervisor as ‘a demon for detail and a stickler for accuracy’. Reading Dr Logan's latest book, his former supervisor cannot help recalling something about a pot calling a kettle black! For the second time recently (cf. JTS, ns 58 [2007], pp. 264–6), I find myself having to declare an interest, and once again any suggestion of partiality or favouritism may be immediately countered by reference to the commendations on the back of the cover, and in this case an appreciative foreword as well, by Archbishop Rowan Williams. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flm087 |
