Our Age is Most Definitely Not "Gnostic"

Gnosticism and Modernity, Part One

There are, it seems to me, any number of good reasons to question whether the category of “gnosticism” still serves any purpose—unless, that is, one’s purpose is to create more heat than light, or to cultivate obscurity, or merely to fling a vacuous term of abuse in the direction of some feature of the world one dislikes. Certainly, as a purely scholarl…