The Rise and Fall of Gnosticism in America

Gnosticism is a thing which comes back in cycles, as it were, and certain crises precipitate it. I think we can see why it happened in the second century after the failure of the last great Jewish revolt. Many Jews seem to be reading their scriptures as it were upside down with the heroes becoming the villains or vice versa. Gnosticism says that this whole creation that we've thought was so good is in fact letting us down. It gets very complicated and if you plunge into the work of people like Araneer Senter, Tullian at the end of the second and early third century who are writing against early Gnosticism, you can very quickly feel that