The End of Gnosticism?

[Humberto Torofuerte]

Or could this be another case of an elect religion trying to whip up on a
preterite one?


On 5/4/06, Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote:
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> Only possibly as a collective name for the Nag Hammadi texts.
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> Certainly not as inspiration for off-the-top-of-the-head, late-night
> meditations on the paranoid
> domain of Thomas Pynchon.
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> On May 4, 2006, at 11:21 AM, Ghetta Life wrote:
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> > 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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