The results, after all, are obvious. They have been chronicled by various commentators over the last two or three decades. In particular, Tom Wolfe pointed out a generation ago in his novel The Bonfire of the Vanities that this kind of Gnosticism leads directly to the confusion, which has grown apace since he wrote, over sexual identity and behaviour8. If the outside world, including my own body in its male or female particularity, are not the good creation of a good and wise God, but rather the