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Gnosticism: From Nag Hammadi to the Gospel of Judas
by David Brakke
Quite the series of lectures. I've read the Nag Hammadi texts, and remember the scholarly commentary on them, but am better informed for having now listened to Brakke contextualize the early Christian/Gnostic era, Irenaeus and his eventual ascension to the father of ideology for ALL of Christianity that lasts until today.
The Gnostics search for knowledge should be what they're remembered for. All religion is truly a search for truth and knowledge, and this makes it part of the same organic growth of the intellectual individual as Science. There's no clean break between the two, and there never has been.
When he veers into Phillip K Dick and the Matrix in his final lecture, Brakke just shows off that he knows his audience.
The Gnostics search for knowledge should be what they're remembered for. All religion is truly a search for truth and knowledge, and this makes it part of the same organic growth of the intellectual individual as Science. There's no clean break between the two, and there never has been.
When he veers into Phillip K Dick and the Matrix in his final lecture, Brakke just shows off that he knows his audience.