Word: esotericism
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Scriptural Alternatives Your article on "The Lost Gospels" [Dec. 22], about early Christian Scriptures that were dropped from the canon and are now being revisited by biblical scholars, could have noted that Gnosticism's appeal was not confined to ancient times but has proved to be widespread and enduring. Gnosticism...
Gold is trading at more than $400 an ounce for the first time in nearly eight years, and industrial commodities like nickel, rubber and cotton just had their fifth highest annual price gain as measured by the Journal of Commerce--Economic Cycle Research Institute index, which began in 1949. How...
Elaine Pagels is part of that minority, which sees certain verses in John as refutations of Thomasine thought and a valuable illustration of how the early Christian communities lobbied for their version of Christ and his message. "I'm not saying [John] was responding to Thomas as written, because there...
Since some esoteric textbooks are printed in small quantities, the costs associated with producing each copy is higher—a cost that is passed onto customers. But while it may be reasonable for some textbooks to cost more than the trade books that are produced in much higher quantities...
Did Joseph Stalin invent modern marketing? That's the thesis of a new show at Frankfurt's Schirn Kunsthalle, which argues that the techniques the dictator used to promote communism in the 1930s presage those now used to sell products throughout the free world. Long before the creative directors of...