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"Why should Gnosticism exercise such a peculiar and lasting fascination? Throughout most of Christian history, Gnosticism was the 'forbidden faith, ' and such condemnation by the official Church might actually have served to endow the movement with…

Plato's four dialogues are treated here for the first time as a continuous argument. In Dorter's view, Plato re-examines the theory of forms propounded in his earlier dialogues and reaffirms them, not as perfectly robust tools in the service of human…