Word: gnostic
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...movie cogently ransacks elements from all kinds of myths, classic and modern. Superman is the god who fell to Earth, enduring a cycle of death and transfiguration. And since he has sired a boy who is part human, he could be the Jesus of the Gnostic Gospels. And Lois? Mary Magdalene...
...Howard and Goldsman have efficiently touched all the bases. But they haven't found a way to replicate the book's page-turning urgency. The games Brown plays - anagrams, the Fibonacci sequence, the art-history gamesmanship, the delving into Gnostic gospel lore, all the clues and miscues in his devious treasure hunt - are best savored by readers with a long night or a long flight ahead of them. They're not intrinsically visual or movie-dramatic, however many car chases the Howard version cranks...
Khoury also injects as much early Christian history as possible, name-dropping the Gnostic gospels discovered at Nag Hammadi every couple of pages...
...Today Gnosticism is the object of renewed interest among scholars, owing largely to the publication of a remarkable library of Gnostic scriptures. Known as the Nag Hammadi Codices, for the town in southern Egypt near the site of their discovery, the library consists of twelve 4th century papyrus books containing texts that are thought to have been translated from the original Greek into Egypt's ancient Coptic language ... The Nag Hammadi texts are already adding new fuel to a long-standing debate over the relationship between Gnosticism and early Christianity. Scholars have long believed that some New Testament passages attack...
...Gnosticism's appeal was not confined to ancient times but has proved to be widespread and enduring. Gnosticism addresses the feelings of displacement and alienation that have haunted us in recent times. While some Gnostic sects dissolved early, others lasted into the fourth century. Many people today feel frightened and amazed by the complexities of the world. The platitudes of organized religion do not seem sufficient. Gnosticism offers a consolation to be found in an esoteric mystical insight. IGNACIO L. GOTZ Point Harbor...