What is Gnosticism? / [print]
Karen L. King.
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, (c)2003.
- xii, 343 pages ; 24 cm.
Why is gnosticism so hard to define? -- Gnosticism as heresy -- Adolf von Harnack and the essence of Christianity -- History of religions school -- Gnosticism reconsidered -- After Nag Hammadi I, categories and origins -- After Nag Hammadi II, typology -- End of gnosticism?