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Rather than treating gnoticizing tendencies and traditions as a subsection of heresiology, Mead treats them as genuine efforts to discern and describe religio-philosophical truths. He believes a lot of it, but he does not let his personal prejudices distort the factual bases of his reportage. Personally, I think the "gnostics" were, on whole, effete and pretentious, hothouse intellectuals of the time. Despite my prejudices, I strongly recommend looking into Mr.

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View all 6 comments. Jan 14, A marked it as to-read Recommends it for: Finally back to reading this one. Mead is discussing the various early Christian Gnostic cults as filtered through the orthodox theologians of the era Irenaenus, Justin Martyr, etc. A lot is reiteration of what I already know, although I did learn the term "Ophite," which means serpent-worshiper. I'm going to have to reread the sections on pre-Christian Gnosticism since I seem to have forgotten most of it already. You can read this book online at http: A book for anybody interested in the symbolism of religion and what was left out of the KJV of the Bible.

It's as well to bear in mind that this was published in and since then many discoveries have been made including the Dead Sea Scrolls. On my to buy list.


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