That actually was a very good article. Thanks!Giuseppe wrote: ↑Sat Sep 23, 2017 9:51 pm M. David Litwa has written an article about the Gnosticism,
You Are Gods: Deification in the Naassene Writer and Clement of Alexandria
His conclusion:
To close: just as there is widespread recognition in the study of Jesus and Paul that the “Judaism vs. Hellenism” divide has collapsed, so there is increasing recognition in Gnostic and Early Christian studies that the wall separating “Gnosis/ Gnosticism” and “Christianity” is without foundation. To be sure, there were non-Christian gnostic sects (whose origins are still vigorously debated). Nevertheless, there were also gnostic groups so thoroughly Christian that contemporary catholic apologists spared no effort in their rhetorical attempt to make them seem “other” and alienated from the “true” Christian myth. It was the threat of similarity that built the wall of (supposedly insurmountable) difference.79 This study is offered as yet another pick to undermine that wall.
DCH