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Gnosticism and American Religion |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Andrew Wilson |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1997 |
| Size: 4,051 Words, 24,967 Characters |
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OMENS OF MILLENNIUM
The Gnosis of Angels, Dreams, and Resurrection
Harold Bloom
New York: Riverhead Books, 1996
253 pp., $24.95
Harold Bloom has long been an interpreter of the American religious landscape. In The Book of J, this Yale professor and literary critic plumbed the Bible to give us an insightful sketch of one of its major authors, the writer of much of the Book of Genesis, who is largely responsible for the way we view the God of the Bible. Now, in Omens of Millennium, he guides us on a dazzling and revealing tour of some of the more surprising roots of contemporary American spirituality. This time, he presents us with texts and ideas not from the Bible but from that alternative spiritual tradition called Gnosticism.
Always lurking beneath the surf...
. . .
... shown him the way to a new self-image, free from anxiety and guilt, is not far from the New Age believer who, when he realizes himself as a Being of Light, finds kinship with Jesus and the saints. Who is the Gnostic? Who is the Christian? Maybe we are all converging toward the One.Perhaps the contemporary spirituality of American Gnosticism can teach the ancients a thing or two, after all. vbcrlf
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