Abstract

With the Nag Hammadi writings retranslated and updated as of 2007, now is the time for a fresh look at a wisdom tradition widely believed to be dominated by dualism and hatred of material being. A close inspection of the extant Gnostic opus reveals that this view needs significant modification, including reimagining the world-creating Demiurge as a possible Trickster figure, making room for the transformation of the divine, and asking: is a nature-loving Gnosticism possible?

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