The End of Gnosticism?

Ghetta Life ghetta_outta at hotmail.com
Thu May 4 10:21:53 CDT 2006


http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?id=tvkvwtdryw6rr3bl0lgyx334815bf097

Sitting in the living room of her home in suburban Boston, Ms. King 
passionately insists that "Gnosticism" needs to go if scholars want to paint 
a more diverse and authentic picture of early Christianity. Yet she 
acknowledges the strength of the current against which she and others are 
swimming.

"It's extremely difficult to change a master narrative," she says. "And 
we've had this master narrative of Christianity since at least the fourth 
century. ... It's become entrenched."

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