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A WRITER CELEBRATES THE MIDDLEBROW READER
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Harry Scherman believed that you could sell books the way Henry
Ford sold cars. Accordingly, Scherman developed in 1926 a modern
selling machine for the publishing industry: the Book-of-the-Month
Club. Uniting an assembly-line distribution driven by the calendar
and the clock with a selection mechanism designed to choose books
representing "timeless values," the club tapped a new class of what
came to be called middlebrow readers.
Janice A. Radway's incisive exploration of the Book-of-the-Month
Club, a print world predating the dot-com circuitry of electronic pop
culture, nevertheless has ...
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A History of Gnosticism.
Magazine article from: The Christian Century
; ...through whom he linked paganism to Gnosticism. Satinover claimed that in its striving for wholeness Gnosticism accommodates matter as well as spirit...to transcend conventional morality, Gnosticism relativizes morality. Finally, in...
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What Is Gnosticism?
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly
; KAREN L. KING, What Is Gnosticism? (Cambridge/London: Belknap...neither a history nor a definition of Gnosticism, as one might expect from the title...that created the faulty category "Gnosticism." King's purpose is "to contribute...
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Ancient Gnosticism: Traditions and Literature.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Biblical Theology Bulletin
; Ancient Gnosticism: Traditions and Literature. By Birgir...familiar to anyone working in the field of Gnosticism and Nag Hammadi Studies. Produced...the past thirty years about ancient Gnosticism, much of it has been fairly impenetrable...
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Ancient Gnosticism: Traditions and Literature
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly
; BIRGER A. PEARSON, Ancient Gnosticism: Traditions and Literature (Minneapolis...sources and testimonia. Ancient Gnosticism is a first-rate introduction...salient chapters entitled "What Is Gnosticism?" and "Gnostic Biblical Interpretation...
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What Is Gnosticism?(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Theological Studies
; WHAT IS GNOSTICISM? By Karen L. King. Cambridge, Mass...characteristics, there is no such thing as gnosticism. As a construct used to define the...normative Christianity, however, gnosticism thrives. The problem, K. argues...
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Shorter reviews -- Gnosticism and the New Testament by Pheme Perkins
Magazine article from: Interpretation
; Gnosticism and the New Testament, by Pheme Perkins...Perkins, an accomplished student of Gnosticism and of the New Testament, does just...narrative of the origins and development of Gnosticism, but to construct a mosaic of various...
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Gnostic Truth and Christian Heresy: A Study in the History of Gnosticism
Magazine article from: Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society
; ...Christian Heresy: A Study in the History of Gnosticism. By Alastair H. B. Logan. Peabody...to reverse the current consensus on gnosticism's origin and development. Against...Stroumsa, he argues that "Sethian Gnosticism" is "basically a Christian phenomenon...
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Gnosticism and the New Testament.
Magazine article from: Theological Studies
; ...collections of essays on the relation of Gnosticism and the New Testament, this is the...P. treats the relationship between Gnosticism and the NT in three parts. "Gnostic...investigates the question of a non-Christian Gnosticism that may have emerged prior to or concurrently...
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Sethian Gnosticism and the Platonic Tradition
Magazine article from: Journal of Biblical Literature
; Sethian Gnosticism and the Platonic Tradition, by John...no stranger to students of ancient Gnosticism. Indeed, he has been one of the leading...Codices as well as his work on Sethian Gnosticism. In this monumental and exhaustive...
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What is Gnosticism?
Magazine article from: Anglican Theological Review
; What is Gnosticism? By Karen L. King. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard...survey of twentieth-century scholarship on Gnosticism critiquing the scholarly construct of the category "Gnosticism" within the larger category of identity formation...
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