The Gnostic New Age: How a Countercultural Spirituality Revolutionized Religion from Antiquity to Today
Gnosticism is a countercultural spirituality that forever changed the practice of Christianity. Before it emerged in the second century, passage to the afterlife required obedience to God and king. Gnosticism proposed that human beings were manifestations of the divine, unsettling the hierarchical f...
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