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标题：What is Gnosticism?
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作者：Lisa R. Holliday
期刊名称：Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory
电子版ISSN：1530-5228
出版年度：2005
卷号：7
期号：1
出版社：The Whitestone Foundation
摘要：KAREN KING'S NEWEST WORK, What is Gnosticism., offers an impressive analysis of the underlying assumptions that have shaped modern conceptions of Gnosticism. Despite the volume's title, King's work does not seek to provide a new definition of Gnosticism, but to raise scholarly awareness of the pitfalls inherent to most approaches. Indeed, her work is addressed to the larger field of early Christian studies. King holds that "the task at hand is to enable an ethics of critical-reflexive practice in historiography and theology … to further critical reflexivity with regard to the discourses and methods of historical scholarship." (147). The challenge for historians, as she aptly illustrates throughout her work, is to be aware of the biases inherent in the terminology that have shaped the study of early Christianity