The Gnostic New Age: How a Countercultural Spirituality Revolutionized Religion from Antiquity to Today

by April D DeConick and April D. DeConick

Book Overview

Gnosticism is a countercultural spirituality that forever changed the practice of Christianity. Before it emerged in the second century, passage to the afterlife required obedience to God and king. Gnosticism proposed that human beings were manifestations of the divine, unsettling the hierarchical foundations of the ancient world. Subversive and revolutionary, Gnostics taught that prayer and mediation could bring human beings into an ecstatic spiritual...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231170777
• ISBN13: 9780231170772
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"