"Bog-lights, vapours of mysticism, psychic overtones, soul orgies, wailings among the shadows, weird gnosticisms, veils and tissues of words, gibbering subjectivisms, gropings and maunderings, ontological fantasies, pan-psychic hallucinations--this is the stuff, the phantasms of hope, that fills your bookshelves.

Among their topics are the study of religion in a post-metaphysical age: philosophical and political reflections, taxonomy is epistemology: theorizing religion and hermeticism polythetically with Wasserstrom's Theses, Nag Hammadi at Eranos: rediscovering Gnosticism among the historians of religions, the repentant magician: "esoteric intimacies" and the enchantment of religious difference, and Luksus and the Hasidic critique of postwar American capitalism.

Synopsis: Throughout the twentieth century, German writers, philosophers, theologians, and historians turned to Gnosticism to make sense of the modern condition.

This is the second of a three-part research project on Early Christianities focusing on Gnosticism and the Pauline traditions.

(1) These movies have all been linked in some way to gnosticism (2) by a variety of scholars and in popular sources, (3) and I will be arguing, first, that their appearance must be seen in relation to the growing presence of gnosticism (or at least a version of gnosticism) in popular culture in the 1980s and 1990s (see below), and, second, that in its rebirth into a new context, ideas about gnosticism underwent some significant changes involving understandings of human empowerment and autonomy.

He uncovers the origins of Gnosticism and the suppression and banishment of magic by the post-pagan, Christian emperors of Rome.

Christians through the centuries have been so tempted, and spiritual writers have labeled these false paths Gnosticism and Pelagianism.

In Chapter two, Two Subtle Enemies of Holiness, Pope Francis speaks about "false forms of holiness that can lead us astray: Gnosticism and Pelagianism.

The online Catholic Encyclopedia has a predictably extensive definition of Gnosticism. What comes as a surprise, however, is how closely its sweeping definition also describes the animating logic of so much online progressivism--contemporary, identity-based, for the young.

Common criticisms of modern Gnosticism target its Orientalism, exoticism, appropriation, commodification and distortion of Asian religions.

His artworks are largely seen as a mystic revelation of a hitherto unknown mythos and pantheon, a synthesis of Jung, Kabala, Gnosticism and various archetypes borrowed from the ancient civilizations of the Mediterranean, the Middle and Far East to encode a synthesis of his views.