The term gnosticism is often used as a sort of umbrella ... in stories that we would say come out of the creative imagination or the religious imagination. Fathers of the church objected and ...
Even so, ideas that we associate with Eastern religions emerged in the first century through the gnostic movement in the West, but they were suppressed and condemned by polemicists like Irenaeus.
"An exciting collected volume arranged around the topic of concealment and revelation in theological discourses, with a focus on Gnosticism, esotericism, and mysticism across the Abrahamittic ...