{"product_id":"the-gnostics-9781947488687","title":"The Gnostics","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): G. W. King\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Mediabook\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Mediabook\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Agnosticism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen this work first appeared, three-and-twenty years ago, it\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebecame at once an object of unmerited abuse, and of equally\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eunmerited praise. Small divines mistaking it for an insidious\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eattempt to overthrow opinions \" as by law established,\" spurted\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eat it with pens dipped in the milk of the Gospel; whilst, under\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe very same hallucination, \" Friends of Light \" lauded it to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe skies-either party equally ignorant both of the subject, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand of the purpose of my labours. One noted Zoihis (whose\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003erecollections of Homer would seem to be of the same deeplymarked\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enature as Ensign Blifil's) is disgusted at my citing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\" Aidoneus \" as a title of the God of the Shades; another is\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eastonished at my ignorance in calling Bardanes a Persian, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewhereas he was a native of Pontus; not understanding that\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e my argument was equally valid in spite of the mistake-Pontus\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebeing originally a province of the empire of Darius, and what\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eis more to the purpose, the actual focus whence Mithraicism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ediffused itself over the Eoman world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mediabook","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45134811267223,"sku":"9781947488687","price":2732.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781947488687.webp?v=1767908163","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-gnostics-9781947488687","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}