Karen L. King

Harvard historian, author of What Is Gnosticism? (2003), which traces how the modern category was built out of Protestant-Catholic polemics and German scholarship, and argues that "Gnosticism" has functioned mainly as a way of policing the boundary of normative Christianity.

Completes the critique Williams began, and does it historiographically: not just "the category is wrong" but "here is exactly who built it and what they wanted it for."