Gnostiques Et Gnosticisme. Etude Critique Des Documents Du Gnosticisme Chretien Aux IIe Et IIIe Siecles

New York: AMS Press, 1978. First AMS edition. Hardcover. vg. Quarto. II, 480pp. Original red cloth with gold lettering on spine. Fascinating work being the reprint of the original 1913 edition. Setting out from the position that the testimony of the controversialists is secondary in value to that of the gnostic writers themselves, the author examines the surviving fragments of those writers, and shows that their interest was moral and religious rather than speculative. Text in French. Binding and interior in overall near to fine condition. (Inventory #: 26456)