Rethinking "Gnosticism"

An argument, category by category, that the standard features of "Gnosticism" — anticosmism, protest exegesis, libertinism, determinism — do not hold across the texts assigned to it, and that the label mostly reproduces the heresiologists' own sorting. He proposes "biblical demiurgical traditions" instead.

The strongest case that this pack is organised around a word that should be retired. It is here prominently BECAUSE it undercuts the pack's own frame.