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Publication
HarperSanFrancisco (2006), Hardcover
Description
The success of books such as Elaine Pagels's Gnostic Gospels and Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code proves beyond a doubt that there is a tremendous thirst today for finding the hidden truths of Christianity-truths that may have been lost or buried by institutional religion over the last two millennia. In Forbidden Faith, Richard Smoley narrates a popular history of one such truth, the ancient esoteric religion of gnosticism, which flourished between the first and fourth centuries AD, but whose legacy remains even today, having survived secretly throughout the ages.
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LibraryThing member Paul_S
Never really read about Gnosticism so this brief overview worked for me, doesn't feel very in depth but maybe that's because there's little material evidence to go on? Probably not going to pursue it as I found the topic uninteresting. Too much arguing about religion.
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Original publication date
2006
2007 (paperback)
Physical description
256 p.; 9.1 inches
ISBN
0060783397 / 9780060783396