Ancient Gnosticism: Traditions and Literature. By Birger A. Pearson
In panoramic histories of early Christian thought, including those that are now in the process of composition, one will not find a chapter devoted to that clutch of ideas and texts that has been known for two centuries as ‘Gnosticism’. If Gnostics, Valentinians, or Marcionites appear parenthetically...
| Published in: | The journal of theological studies |
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2008
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2008, Volume: 59, Issue: 2, Pages: 772-775 |
| Review of: | Ancient Gnosticism (Minneapolis, Minn. : Fortress Press, 2007) (Edwards, Mark)
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| Summary: | In panoramic histories of early Christian thought, including those that are now in the process of composition, one will not find a chapter devoted to that clutch of ideas and texts that has been known for two centuries as ‘Gnosticism’. If Gnostics, Valentinians, or Marcionites appear parenthetically as stimuli to the formulation of orthodoxy, the rehearsal of their teachings will be perfunctory, the discussion moribund when it is not derisive. One reason may be that the authors of such histories have a prepossession in favour of writers now considered catholic and orthodox; another is that the works in which Gnostics speak for themselves have come to light only recently, and only in Coptic versions which make little sense to most readers when translated into English. |
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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/fln074 |