Michael Williams on the Trouble with ‘Gnosticism’
Podcast episodes – The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast (SHWEP)
English - January 01, 2020 18:46 - 1 hour - 68.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 128 ratingsEducation Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Professor Michael Williams leads us on a tour of ‘Gnosticism’, both as a term (used and misused by ancient heresiologists, Reformation-era polemicists, modern scholars, and even modern ‘Gnostics’) and as a group of late-ancient religious texts which are very, very interesting, but which should probably not be called ‘Gnostic’.