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By Roelof van den Broek

Gnostic faith is the expression of a spiritual worldview that's ruled through the idea that of Gnosis, an esoteric wisdom of God and the man or woman which gives you salvation to people who own it. Roelof van den Broek provides right here a clean method of the gnostic present of overdue Antiquity inside of its historic and spiritual context, in accordance with assets in Greek, Latin and Coptic, together with discussions of the person works of preserved gnostic literature. Van den Broek explores many of the gnostic interpretations of the Christian religion that have been present within the moment and 3rd centuries, when exhibiting that regardless of its impression on early Christianity, gnostic faith was once no longer a regularly Christian phenomenon. This publication should be of curiosity to theologians, historians of faith, scholars and students of the historical past of past due Antiquity and early Christianity, in addition to experts in historical gnostic and airtight traditions.

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