R. McL. Wilson (1916–2010)

While the history and development of religious practices and religious thought has been fascinating to me over the past 20 to 25 years, this small volume of a review of the state of study of the gnostic aspects and traits of Judaism and Christian Gnosticism was more directed toward an academic audience than someone like me who has a passing interest.
Don't get me wrong, the cosmology and eschatological elements in common between pre-Gnostic, Jewish apocalyptic, and early Christian views show more continues to be a relevant attraction to me to understand how the various threads of the eastern Mediterranean religious 'mystery religions' then spawned and created those practices and tenets that continued to grow over the next several hundred years.
Well worth expanding upon with further readings on the subject of the Nag Hamdadi documents and the studies of other works of that time. show less