The Modern Invention of an Ancient System

Gnosticism and Modernity, Part Two

As a critical category for understanding early Christian history, as I noted in the first installment in this series, the very term “gnosticism” has become increasingly suspect in recent years, for reasons I briefly alluded to there. If I am still attached to the word myself, in an inconstant and conceptually fickle way, this is only because I find it a…