MacGregor, Geddes,

Gnosis : renaissance in Christian thought / [print] Geddes MacGregor. - Wheaton, Illinois : Theosophical Pub. House, (c)1979. - x, 223 pages ; 22 cm. - A Quest book .



Gnosis and Gnosticism -- What is gnosis? -- Special problems in definition -- Critique of a scholarly definition -- Gnosticism as the creative element in religion -- Science, magic and monotheism -- The peril of de-gnosticizing Jesus -- Hidden motifs in Christian liturgy -- Faith as inductive gnosis -- Is God other than nature? -- Evolutionism and gnosis -- Karma, reincarnation and the ancient gnosis -- Prayer as the exercise of psychic energy -- Humanism and the gnosis -- Renaissance in Christian thought.



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