Forbidden Faith: The Secret History of Gnosticism
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The success of books such as Elaine Pagels's Gnostic Gospels and Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code proves beyond a doubt that there is a tremendous thirst today for finding the hidden truths of Christianity – truths that may have been lost or buried by institutional religion over the last two millennia.
In Forbidden Faith, Richard Smoley narrates a popular history of one such truth, the ancient esoteric religion of gnosticism, which flourished between the first and fourth centuries A.D., but whose legacy remains even today, having survived secretly throughout the ages.
Richard Smoley
Richard Smoley is one of the world’s leading authorities on the Western esoteric traditions, with degrees from both Harvard and Oxford. His many books include Inner Christianity: A Guide to the Esoteric Tradition and How God Became God: What Scholars Are Really Saying about God and the Bible. Former editor of Gnosis, he is now editor of Quest: Journal of the Theosophical Society in America. He lives in Winfield, Illinois.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Richard Smoley shines a light into shadows of esoteric thinking from the Gnostics to Boehme, Blake into the modern era of Carl Jung and Philip K. Dick. He shows how the thinking of the day has both considered their beliefs as heretical to those that consider their beliefs as a tradition passed through history.
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Never really read about Gnosticism so this brief overview worked for me, doesn't feel very in depth but maybe that's because there's little material evidence to go on? Probably not going to pursue it as I found the topic uninteresting. Too much arguing about religion.