The Gnostics: The First Christian Heretics

By Sean Martin

Book Overview

Although largely stamped out by the Church by the sixth century, Gnosticism survived underground through groups such as the Bogomils and the Cathars, and influenced the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, the psychologist Carl Jung, the Existentialists, the New Age movement and writers as diverse as William Blake, W.B. Yeats, Albert Camus and Philip K. Dick. Here, Sean Martin recounts the long and diverse history of Gnosticism and argues for its continued relevance today.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1904048560
• ISBN13: 9781904048565
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Pocket Essentials
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 7.5"