What Is Gnosticism?

Karen L. King

    Preface

    Abbreviations

    Introduction

    1. Why Is Gnosticism So Hard to Define?

    2. Gnosticism as Heresy

    3. Adolf von Harnack and the Essence of Christianity

    4. The History of Religions School

    5. Gnosticism Reconsidered

    6. After Nag Hammadi I: Categories and Origins

    7. After Nag Hammadi II: Typology

    8. The End of Gnosticism?

    Note on Methodology

    Bibliography

    Notes

    Index

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Karen L. King is Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the Divinity School, Harvard University.