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Article: Studies in Gnosticism and in the Philosophy of Religion.(Review)
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- The Review of Metaphysics
- Article date:
- September 1, 1998
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Hanratty, Gerald. Studies in Gnosticism and in the Philosophy of Religion. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1997. 200 pp. Cloth, $55.00--This book gathers together eight essays which are loosely united by the thin thread of gnosticism. In fact, this thread is not long enough to extend to the last three chapters which embrace a different theme, namely, philosophy of religion, broadly understood. The first and second chapters complement each other nicely. The first treats the early gnostics and in so doing raises such basic questions as the complex origins of gnosticism and the multifarious expressions which can be identified under this heading. Hanratty's specific interest is in ...
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