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| #1020903 in Books | Belknap Press | 2005-04-30 | 2005-04-04 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.25 x.88 x6.13l,.90 | File type: PDF | 368 pages | ||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| THE HARVARD RELIGIOUS HISTORIAN LOOKS OBJECTIVELY AT THIS "HERESY"|By Steven H Propp|Karen Leigh King (born 1954) is a professor of Ecclesiastical History at Harvard Divinity School, and a member of the Jesus Seminar; she has written other books such as The Gospel of Mary of Magdala: Jesus and the First Woman Apostle, The Secret Revelation of John, Images of the Feminine in Gno||What is Gnosticism? offers an original and persuasive account of how we have come to speak of "gnosticism," and what various people have meant by that. Karen King's important new book transforms our understanding of the origins of Christianity. (Elaine
A distinctive Christian heresy? A competitor of burgeoning Christianity? A pre-Christian folk religion traceable to "Oriental syncretism"? How do we account for the disparate ideas, writings, and practices that have been placed under the Gnostic rubric? To do so, Karen King says, we must first disentangle modern historiography from the Christian discourse of orthodoxy and heresy that has pervaded--and distorted--the story.
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