... New Testament. Marcion and the Western Valentinians appear to have been the most feared by catholic theologians. Until recently, our knowledge of gnostic thought was almost exclusively dependent upon the reports of its critics (e.g., Irenaeus, Hippolytus, Tenullian, Origen, Plotinus); but a cache of documents found at Nag Hammadi in Egypt in 1945 has provided originals of some treatises alluded to by those ... mainstream self-help and spirituality literature. In recent years, major publishing houses have issued handsomely packaged translations of gnostic scripture and, in one case, even...

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