The Gnostics / Jacques Lacarrière ; foreword by Lawrence Durrell ; translated from the French by Nina Rootes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lacarrière, Jacques, 1925-2005.

Standardized Title:

Gnostiques. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Gnosticism.

Physical Description:

136 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : City Lights, [1989]

Summary:

Gnostics have always sought to "know" rather than to accept dogma and doctrine, often to their peril. This inquiry into Gnosticism examines the character, history, and beliefs of a brave and vigorous spiritual quest that originated in the ancient Near East and continues into the present day.

Lawrence Durrell writes, "This is a strange and original essay, more a work of literature than of scholarship, though its documentation is impeccable. It is as convincing a reconstruction of the way the Gnostics lived and thought as D.H. Lawrence's intuitive recreation of the vanished Etruscans."

Notes:

Translation of: Les gnostiques.

Reprint. Originally published: London : Owen, 1977.

Bibliography: pages 129-136.

ISBN:

0872862437 :

OCLC:

19739819