The End of Gnosticism?

[Paul Mackin]

Only possibly as a collective name for the Nag Hammadi texts.

Certainly not as inspiration for off-the-top-of-the-head, late-night  
meditations on the paranoid
domain of Thomas Pynchon.




On May 4, 2006, at 11:21 AM, Ghetta Life wrote:

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