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The Earliest Christan Gnosticism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

Robert M. Grant
Robert M. Grant
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In recent years new methods of approaching the study of gnosticism have arisen. The older synthesis of Bousset, with its somewhat over-schematized picture of gnostic thought, and the severely critical analysis of de Faye, with its emphasis on our ignorance of gnostic beginnings, have failed to retain general approval. The newer methods have stressed an existentialist or psychological understanding of the gnostics, and questions of source-analysis and chronology have faded into the background. Often the problem of development within gnostic thought is not seriously considered.

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Church History , Volume 22 , Issue 2 , June 1953, pp. 81 - 98
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Copyright © American Society of Church History 1953

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