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This introduction to Gnosis by Christoph Markschies combines great clarity with immense learning. In his Introduction, Markschies defines the term Gnosis and its relationship to ‘Gnosticism’, indicating why Gnosis is preferable and sketches out the main problems. He then treats the sources, both those in the church fathers and heresiologists, and the more recent Nag Hammadi finds. He goes on to...

takes the form of a strict philosophical system; according to the philosopher’s definition, the real being of things is appropriated in knowledge. So there can be knowledge in the primary sense only of the structures of all reality which underlie the world of appearances, structures which Plato calls ‘ideas’. Right knowledge is the presupposition for right action. Plato is convinced that such knowledge is recollection, the restoration of a view that a person originally had. The original knowledge
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