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The Gnostic Bible: Gnostic Texts of Mystical Wisdom form the Ancient and Medieval Worlds by Willis Barnstone and Marvin Meyer is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Gnostic Bible: Gnostic Texts of Mystical Wisdom form the Ancient and Medieval Worlds about?
Gnosticism was a wide-ranging religious movement of the first millennium CE--with earlier antecedents and later flourishings--whose adherents sought salvation through knowledge and personal religious experience. Gnostic writings offer striking perspectives on both early Christian and non-Christian thought. For example, some gnostic texts suggest that god should be celebrated as both mother and father, and that self-knowledge is the supreme path to the divine. Only in the past fifty years has it
Who reads The Gnostic Bible: Gnostic Texts of Mystical Wisdom form the Ancient and Medieval Worlds?
It is typically read by readers engaging with religious study and devotional practice.
Common subject areas: religion, theology.
- Author
- Willis Barnstone and Marvin Meyer
- Publisher
- Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
- Published
- 2003
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781590306420
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- Christian, Fiction, Religion
- Rating
- 4.15 / 5 (63 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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