The Gnostics: Identifying an Early Christian Cult

From: Anglican Theological Review | Date: July 1, 2007| Author: Richards, Bill | Copyright information

The Gnostics: Identifying an Early Christian Cult. By Alastair H. B. Logan. London: T & T Clark, Ltd., 2006. xvii + 150 pp. $34.95 (paper).

Ten years ago, Alastair Logan's Gnostic Truth and Christian Heresy (1996) offered a close reading of the Nag Hammadi text that he considered definitive of the Gnosticism Irenaeus and Epiphanius knew: The Apocryphon of John. Since then two significant works, M. A. Williams's Bethinking Gnosticism (1996) and Karen King's What is Gnosticism? (2003...

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